The Visitation, from a Book of Hours, bifolium on vellum, with a large historiated initial of the Visitation, with Mary and Elizabeth embracing, flanked by 2 other figures, a house in the background, in full colours, haloes in burnished gold, within initial "D" in pink on burnished gold ground (58 by 60mm.), 3 elaborate borders of acanthus leaves in blue, pink, green and red, a few tendrils, and numerous spots of burnished gold, all leaves 22 lines, brown ink, 5 2-line capitals in burnished gold on ground of blue tracery with marginal sprays, capitals in alternate blue and red, full page 235 by 170mm., [Northern Italy, c.1450]
The Visitation, from a Book of Hours, bifolium on vellum, with a large historiated initial of the Visitation, with Mary and Elizabeth embracing, flanked by 2 other figures, a house in the background, in full colours, haloes in burnished gold, within initial "D" in pink on burnished gold ground (58 by 60mm.), 3 elaborate borders of acanthus leaves in blue, pink, green and red, a few tendrils, and numerous spots of burnished gold, all leaves 22 lines, brown ink, 5 2-line capitals in burnished gold on ground of blue tracery with marginal sprays, capitals in alternate blue and red, full page 235 by 170mm., [Northern Italy, c.1450]
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