Three historiated and two illuminated initials from a copy of St Augustine’s Tractates on the Gospel of John, in Latin [Alsace (perhaps Strasbourg), c.1460-70] five cuttings, from 80x100mm to 135x95mm, vellum, from a volume written in two columns each 80mm wide, each 20 lines occupying c.115mm in height, each cutting with an initial in burnished gold: (a) initial ‘M’, Tractate 8, with THE MIRACLE AT CANA (John 2:1-9); (b) initial ‘M’, Tractate 24, with THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND (John 6:5-8); (c) gilt foliate initial ‘I’, Tractate 28; (d) initial ‘M’, Tractate 33, with THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY (John 8:3-8); (e) gilt and painted initial ‘T’ enclosing a blank space, Tractate 112, all apparently salvaged from a manuscript with water-damage and creases, the pigments of one historiated initial rather washed-out
Three historiated and two illuminated initials from a copy of St Augustine’s Tractates on the Gospel of John, in Latin [Alsace (perhaps Strasbourg), c.1460-70] five cuttings, from 80x100mm to 135x95mm, vellum, from a volume written in two columns each 80mm wide, each 20 lines occupying c.115mm in height, each cutting with an initial in burnished gold: (a) initial ‘M’, Tractate 8, with THE MIRACLE AT CANA (John 2:1-9); (b) initial ‘M’, Tractate 24, with THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND (John 6:5-8); (c) gilt foliate initial ‘I’, Tractate 28; (d) initial ‘M’, Tractate 33, with THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY (John 8:3-8); (e) gilt and painted initial ‘T’ enclosing a blank space, Tractate 112, all apparently salvaged from a manuscript with water-damage and creases, the pigments of one historiated initial rather washed-out
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