Strip cut from an English Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [England, fifteenth century]tall and thin cutting, with remains of a single column of 28 lines of a large and bold English bookhand, red rubrics, four large blue initials enclosing foliage picked out in blank parchment by red penwork, the same initials enclosed within ornate scrolling penwork foliage filling the entire margin, reused in a binding and hence with some scuffs, darkened edges and cockled sections, overall fair and presentable, 313 by 52mm.
Strip cut from an English Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [England, fifteenth century]tall and thin cutting, with remains of a single column of 28 lines of a large and bold English bookhand, red rubrics, four large blue initials enclosing foliage picked out in blank parchment by red penwork, the same initials enclosed within ornate scrolling penwork foliage filling the entire margin, reused in a binding and hence with some scuffs, darkened edges and cockled sections, overall fair and presentable, 313 by 52mm.
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