Leaf from an early Gradual with a decorated initial, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Bologna, or perhaps Tuscany), early fourteenth century] Single large leaf, with an initial 'E' (in error, opening "[C]lamaverunt ad te domine ...", an Introit for the Feast of SS. Philippus and Jacobus, 1 May) in fawn heightened with hairline white strokes, enclosing coloured acanthus leaves in blue, green, fawn and magma-like red, all on blue grounds and with white penwork tendrils, with 7 lines of text with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 22mm.), capitals and significant letters touched in red, red rubrics, two simple red or blue initials with contrasting penwork, original folio no. "CCXVII" in midpoint of outer margin of verso, seventeenth-century folio no. "216" in same place on recto, small stains in places, tape marks and pinholes in blank corners from hanging, else fine condition, 442 by 305mm. From an early Gradual with finely and delicately painted initials.
Leaf from an early Gradual with a decorated initial, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Bologna, or perhaps Tuscany), early fourteenth century] Single large leaf, with an initial 'E' (in error, opening "[C]lamaverunt ad te domine ...", an Introit for the Feast of SS. Philippus and Jacobus, 1 May) in fawn heightened with hairline white strokes, enclosing coloured acanthus leaves in blue, green, fawn and magma-like red, all on blue grounds and with white penwork tendrils, with 7 lines of text with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 22mm.), capitals and significant letters touched in red, red rubrics, two simple red or blue initials with contrasting penwork, original folio no. "CCXVII" in midpoint of outer margin of verso, seventeenth-century folio no. "216" in same place on recto, small stains in places, tape marks and pinholes in blank corners from hanging, else fine condition, 442 by 305mm. From an early Gradual with finely and delicately painted initials.
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