Manuscript folio. Written in Gothic textualis script on parchment with decorated capital "D" (9 lines tall), with foliage extending into the margin, in red, blue, green, pink brown and white ink, and also gold and (tarnished) silver. Page from a missal. The text is arranged in two columns (34 lines). As a heading to the page, and rubricated, the Roman numeral: CXVI. The beginning of the passage reads: "Domine lingua mia iraui exultavit cor meu in salutari tuo cantabo domino qui bona tribuit mihi" (a section comes from Psalm 12:6 "Exsultabit cor meum in salutari tuo. Cantabo Domino qui bona tribuit mihi"). The text includes rubricated phrases and initials, as well as a capital "D" in blue ink. 34.7 x 25.2 cm
"[southern Germany, probably Augsburg, end 15th century]344 x 248mm (visible area in mount). The initial with foliage staves of pink with an infill of punched silver against a punched ground of burnished gold and within a moulding frame of green and pink, the staves leading behind the frame to acanthus tendrils in pink, green and blue interspersed with gold disks with pink penwork surrounds; 34 lines in brown ink in two sizes of gothic bookhand, with cadell in lower margin of verso, between four verticals and 35 horizontals ruled in brown, justification: 277 x 86-18-83mm, rubrics in red, text capitals touched red, letters of opening word and two-line initials alternately in red and blue (slight cockling, slight staining to margins, silver tarnished). Double-sided gilt frame. Provenance: Collectors stamp in blue with initials FH on verso; paper label on framing 'Coll JV 106'; typewritten description in German.
The initial D begins the introit for the first Sunday after the octave of Pentecost, or the first Sunday after Trinity, Domine in tua misericordia. The leaf was f.cxvi in a missal that must have closely resembled the smaller missal from which six leaves entered the Cornelius J. Hauk Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 27-28 June 2006, lots 120-122. The decoration indicates an origin in Augsburg."
Missal: illuminated Initial D on Vellum
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