CHRIST THE REDEEMER, historiated initial 'D' on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BREVIARY ON VELLUM

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CHRIST THE REDEEMER, historiated initial 'D' on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BREVIARY ON VELLUM
[Bologna, beginning of the 15th century]
Leaf 268 x 262mm, initial pink on burnished gold ground (62x61mm), Christ, half-length, in red and green robe, body colour, with raised hand, holding a book in the other hand, on blue ground, with coloured floral and foliate extension the length of the page. Text double column, 20 lines in a gothic rotunda, with 8 lines of music on 4-line red staves. The leaf has the original foliation cxxxxii.

The miniature illustrates Psalm 99 'Dixit Dominus'. The leaf belongs to the same manuscript as the lot above

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