An album of initials on cuttings, from an illuminated manuscript on vellum [Italy (most probably Rome), early sixteenth century] 102 initials, each approximately 50mm. by 55mm., on 52 numbered leaves (one leaf before fol.1 cancelled, perhaps due to error), laid down 2 to a leaf within simple black penwork borders, the initials in liquid gold on red and burgundy grounds with foliate sprays and lines and circles picked out in liquid gold, text visible on versos, occasional small smudges and areas of slight damage, else in excellent condition, early nineteenth-century binding of marbled calf over pasteboards
An album of initials on cuttings, from an illuminated manuscript on vellum [Italy (most probably Rome), early sixteenth century] 102 initials, each approximately 50mm. by 55mm., on 52 numbered leaves (one leaf before fol.1 cancelled, perhaps due to error), laid down 2 to a leaf within simple black penwork borders, the initials in liquid gold on red and burgundy grounds with foliate sprays and lines and circles picked out in liquid gold, text visible on versos, occasional small smudges and areas of slight damage, else in excellent condition, early nineteenth-century binding of marbled calf over pasteboards
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