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Title
Breviary [leaf].
Date
13th century
Summary
Vellum folio from a breviary. Multiple capital letters in red and blue ink, decorated with fine penwork. There is a flaw in the lower margin. 14.5 x 9.9 mm. (Mounted on a matte.) Inventory: Text in Latin written in two columns on very fine vellum in an extraordinarily small gothic script - so small that there are 5 lines of text to the centimetre. Six two-line initials alternating in red and blue extensively embellished internally and externally with fine, assured pen flourishes in the contrasting colour extending into the margins. The versal initials alternate in red and blue and were added after the scribe had finished the text written in black.
Title
Manuscript folio from the Book of Amos with illuminated initials.
Date
13th century
Summary
Vellum manuscript folio with text on both sides. Text in two columns of 50 lines (14 x 9 cm). Extremely small textura script, with some rubricated sentences and capitals touched in red ink. Four illuminated initials on the recto, in gold, blue, red and white ink. Two of these initials are also historiated: a capital "O" inhabited by a wyvern, and a capital "U" with a scene with three male figures. There are also two decorated initials with penwork in red and blue ink on the verso. The running title: "Amos," indicates the text is a passage from the Book of Amos in the Old Testament. 19 x 13.8 cm (Mounted on matte)