ILLUMINATED INITIAL "C", on a leaf from an MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BREVIARY ON VELLUM [Bologna, beginning of the 15th century] Leaf 368x263mm, initial 43x44mm, pink on burnished gold ground, with painted floral and foliate extension and a large stork-like bird at the side. Infilled with multi-coloured geometric quatrefoil decoration on blue ground. Text double column, 20 lines, written in brown ink in a gothic rotunda, rubrics in red; with three lines of music on red 4-line staves. This is the verso of the leaf; recto 20 lines, with 10 lines of music. The leaf has the original foliation clxviii. The initial introduces Psalm 4 ' Cum invocarem exaudivit me Deus iustitiae meae '. The leaf belongs to the same choir book as the previous two lots
ILLUMINATED INITIAL "C", on a leaf from an MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BREVIARY ON VELLUM [Bologna, beginning of the 15th century] Leaf 368x263mm, initial 43x44mm, pink on burnished gold ground, with painted floral and foliate extension and a large stork-like bird at the side. Infilled with multi-coloured geometric quatrefoil decoration on blue ground. Text double column, 20 lines, written in brown ink in a gothic rotunda, rubrics in red; with three lines of music on red 4-line staves. This is the verso of the leaf; recto 20 lines, with 10 lines of music. The leaf has the original foliation clxviii. The initial introduces Psalm 4 ' Cum invocarem exaudivit me Deus iustitiae meae '. The leaf belongs to the same choir book as the previous two lots
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