Psalter, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum 44 leaves (one fifteenth-century), 170mm. by 123mm., a fragment only, not consecutive, mostly from the second half of the Psalms, old foliation extends to ‘212’, 17 lines, ruling faint, written-space 122mm. by 80mm., written in dark brown ink in a gothic liturgical hand, illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout, versal initials in burnished gold on blue and pink grounds with white tracery, line-fillers in leafy designs on blue, pink and orange with white heightening and burnished gold, including running hounds, fish, dragons, etc., forty-five large illuminated initials, the initials 2 lines high with branching ivyleaf extensions into the margins, initials sometimes enclosing dragons, human faces (fols.1r and 15v), a grotesque in a hood (fol.34r), a bird (fol.4r), a rabbit (fol.4v), etc., some early corrections to the text, fol.42 (with part of the Litany) from a French manuscript of c.1460, many signs of use, thumbed, some illumination rubbed, outer extremities of illuminated extensions sometimes cropped, most pages sound, nineteenth-century (probably English) black morocco, marbled endleaves, red edges, in a fitted blue cloth case, title gilt
Psalter, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum 44 leaves (one fifteenth-century), 170mm. by 123mm., a fragment only, not consecutive, mostly from the second half of the Psalms, old foliation extends to ‘212’, 17 lines, ruling faint, written-space 122mm. by 80mm., written in dark brown ink in a gothic liturgical hand, illuminated initials and line-fillers throughout, versal initials in burnished gold on blue and pink grounds with white tracery, line-fillers in leafy designs on blue, pink and orange with white heightening and burnished gold, including running hounds, fish, dragons, etc., forty-five large illuminated initials, the initials 2 lines high with branching ivyleaf extensions into the margins, initials sometimes enclosing dragons, human faces (fols.1r and 15v), a grotesque in a hood (fol.34r), a bird (fol.4r), a rabbit (fol.4v), etc., some early corrections to the text, fol.42 (with part of the Litany) from a French manuscript of c.1460, many signs of use, thumbed, some illumination rubbed, outer extremities of illuminated extensions sometimes cropped, most pages sound, nineteenth-century (probably English) black morocco, marbled endleaves, red edges, in a fitted blue cloth case, title gilt
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