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[CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT.] -- MINIATURE PRAYERBOOK, in German, CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Germany, late 16th century]
75 x 60mm. iii + 31 leaves: 13(of 4, i pastedown), 2-84, 93(of 4, iv pastedown), COMPLETE, 9 lines written in black ink in a handsome German fraktur frame-ruled in red, rubrics in red, black silver and gold, CALLIGRAPHIC incipits and initials and interlace tailpieces of the same colors open and end each prayer (some cropping at upper and outer margins, tiny tear in outer margin of opening folio). Contemporary taffeta over pasteboard (worn).
This collection of prayers and psalms, all in German, is an unusually small display of the elegant and skillful manuscripts associated with German writing masters. An inscription on the first endleaf, signed H.L., records his mother Ursula Lemvin's gift of the book to him on 7 July 1607 and that it was written by his father Ulrich Lemv 'with his own hand'.
[Germany, late 16th century]
75 x 60mm. iii + 31 leaves: 1
This collection of prayers and psalms, all in German, is an unusually small display of the elegant and skillful manuscripts associated with German writing masters. An inscription on the first endleaf, signed H.L., records his mother Ursula Lemvin's gift of the book to him on 7 July 1607 and that it was written by his father Ulrich Lemv 'with his own hand'.