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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 115 - closed 6/21/2006

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Lot #773: "Illuminated Leaf" Anonymous

Manuscript medieval Illuminated Leaf
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Estimate:
$240.00 - $300.00
Sold for: $350.00

Lot 773
By: Anonymous
Subject: Medieval Manuscripts
Date: 1450

Publication: Book of Hours

Condition: A
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Size: 14.5 x 20.5 inches
36.9 x 52.1 cm

This beautifully decorated vellum leaf is from a French Book of Hours. The text is in a regular gothic book hand, in brown/black ink with red rubrics and several lovely initials and line fillers painted in red, blue and burnished gold leaf. The tiny pin pricks that were used to rule the leaf are visible at the margin edge. The text is from Psalm 58



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