St. James the Apostle, large historiated initial on a cutting from a monumental Lectionary or Martyrology on vellum a cutting, 210mm. by 154mm., with a 6-line historiated initial 'A' (opening 'Apostolus Domini nostri Jesu Christi Jacobus...' a vita of the saint) in yellow and red with panels of blue geometric decorations within the ascenders, enclosing in its upper part a single sprig of white-vine edged with yellow shoots, and in its lower part a half-length portrait of St. James with soft, well-defined features, dressed in a red tunic and green cloak, and gazing at the beginning of his own Passion and blessing with his right hand, all on blue grounds edged in red (initial a little trimmed at top with loss of about 1 cm.), double column with remains of a single line of decorative capitals in black ink and 15 lines of main text in same in an excellent early Gothic bookhand, small fold across top from use in binding, but on fine and heavy vellum and in excellent and fresh condition
St. James the Apostle, large historiated initial on a cutting from a monumental Lectionary or Martyrology on vellum a cutting, 210mm. by 154mm., with a 6-line historiated initial 'A' (opening 'Apostolus Domini nostri Jesu Christi Jacobus...' a vita of the saint) in yellow and red with panels of blue geometric decorations within the ascenders, enclosing in its upper part a single sprig of white-vine edged with yellow shoots, and in its lower part a half-length portrait of St. James with soft, well-defined features, dressed in a red tunic and green cloak, and gazing at the beginning of his own Passion and blessing with his right hand, all on blue grounds edged in red (initial a little trimmed at top with loss of about 1 cm.), double column with remains of a single line of decorative capitals in black ink and 15 lines of main text in same in an excellent early Gothic bookhand, small fold across top from use in binding, but on fine and heavy vellum and in excellent and fresh condition
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