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22 - Six leaves from a Psalter, one with a historiated initial enclosing St. Paul, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Germany, fourteenth century], two bifolia and two single leaves (the second of those attached to one of the bifolia), contemporary folio numbers: ‘clxxxxi’, ‘clxxxxv’-‘clxxxvii’ and ‘lxxiii’-‘lxxvi’, each leaf with single column of 17 lines in a tall and angular gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, red rubrics, one- and 2-line initials in red or dark blue, one large historiated initial ‘C’ (opening “Cantate domino canticum …”, Psalm 96) in pale yellow with green-blue overlaid, enclosing the saint, standing in blue and red robes holding a sword and an open book, all on burnished gold grounds with stylised acanthus leaves at inner corners and all within a realistic blue and orange frame, some chipping to gold and paint, some darkened areas of vellum (especially outer and upper corners of leaves), overall fair and presentable condition, each leaf approximately 154 x 107mm.
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Six leaves from a Psalter, one with a historiated initial enclosing St. Paul, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Germany, fourteenth century], two bifolia and two single leaves (the second of those attached to one of the bifolia), contemporary folio numbers: ‘clxxxxi’, ‘clxxxxv’-‘clxxxvii’ and ‘lxxiii’-‘lxxvi’, each leaf with single column of 17 lines in a tall and angular gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, red rubrics, one- and 2-line initials in red or dark blue, one large historiated initial ‘C’ (opening “Cantate domino canticum …”, Psalm 96) in pale yellow with green-blue overlaid, enclosing the saint, standing in blue and red robes holding a sword and an open book, all on burnished gold grounds with stylised acanthus leaves at inner corners and all within a realistic blue and orange frame, some chipping to gold and paint, some darkened areas of vellum (especially outer and upper corners of leaves), overall fair and presentable condition, each leaf approximately 154 x 107mm.
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