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ILLUMINATED INITIALS T AND R, on leaves from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT MISSAL ON VELLUM
[southern Germany, probably Augsburg, end 15th century]
317 x 240mm. The initial with foliage staves of green and a pink leafy infill against a punched and ground of burnished gold and within a moulding frame of blue and red highlit yellow, the central margin with a twiggy green stem ending in coloured fruit/flower at the upper margin and with tendrils and leaves of blue, green and pink and with a blue columbine flower and a golden fruit scrolling over the lower margin, interspersed with golden disks with pink penwork surrounds; 25 lines in black ink in two sizes of gothic bookhand between four verticals and 26 horizontals ruled in brown, justification: 218 x 73-15-72mm, rubrics in red, capitals touched red, letters of opening word and two-line initials alternately red or blue (two creases at lower right, slight thumbing of margins).
The initial T opens the introit Terribilis est locus for the feast of the Dedication of a Church; this was folio cxvii in a Missal.
The leaf with the initial R the same, but the initial staves are blue and the frame is of green and red. Once f.clxvii, the initial opens the introit Requiem eternam for All Souls.
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[southern Germany, probably Augsburg, end 15th century]
317 x 240mm. The initial with foliage staves of green and a pink leafy infill against a punched and ground of burnished gold and within a moulding frame of blue and red highlit yellow, the central margin with a twiggy green stem ending in coloured fruit/flower at the upper margin and with tendrils and leaves of blue, green and pink and with a blue columbine flower and a golden fruit scrolling over the lower margin, interspersed with golden disks with pink penwork surrounds; 25 lines in black ink in two sizes of gothic bookhand between four verticals and 26 horizontals ruled in brown, justification: 218 x 73-15-72mm, rubrics in red, capitals touched red, letters of opening word and two-line initials alternately red or blue (two creases at lower right, slight thumbing of margins).
The initial T opens the introit Terribilis est locus for the feast of the Dedication of a Church; this was folio cxvii in a Missal.
The leaf with the initial R the same, but the initial staves are blue and the frame is of green and red. Once f.clxvii, the initial opens the introit Requiem eternam for All Souls.
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