St. John seated on Patmos writing his Gospel, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum a single leaf, 154mm. by 102mm., full-page miniature of St. John with a liquid gold halo seated on a grassy hillock writing on a scroll, all before a watery landscape with islands topped with medieval towns and a wide open sky, all within an architectural frame on the base of which an eagle stands wings open supporting an open scroll containing a 3-line initial 'I' (opening 'In principio erat ...', John 1:1, from the Gospel Lessons in a Book of Hours) in dull gold supported by two cherubs, and with 3 lines of text in dark brown ink in an elaborate lettre bâtarde, 15 lines in same on verso, in good condition perhaps with some later retouching, loosely laid down on nineteenth-century card
St. John seated on Patmos writing his Gospel, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum a single leaf, 154mm. by 102mm., full-page miniature of St. John with a liquid gold halo seated on a grassy hillock writing on a scroll, all before a watery landscape with islands topped with medieval towns and a wide open sky, all within an architectural frame on the base of which an eagle stands wings open supporting an open scroll containing a 3-line initial 'I' (opening 'In principio erat ...', John 1:1, from the Gospel Lessons in a Book of Hours) in dull gold supported by two cherubs, and with 3 lines of text in dark brown ink in an elaborate lettre bâtarde, 15 lines in same on verso, in good condition perhaps with some later retouching, loosely laid down on nineteenth-century card
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