Lucia virgo, quid a me petis [leaf]

"Use of Sarum. Recto: Text in Latin written on high quality vellum in black ink in two sizes of an assured Gothic bookhand. Pricking marks on theright margin and a small delicate repair to the vellum in the top margin. Ruled in red and rubrics in red. Some initials touched inyellow. Three exquisite two-line illuminated initials in pink and blue outlined in black and finished with fine white penwork. Eachinitial is infilled with a different design. The initials are on highly burnished gold grounds and have illuminations radiating into themargins of black tendrils bearing coloured acanthus and other flowers, green leaves and burnished gold ivy leaves and bezants. Verso: As Recto, with a further two equally exquisite illuminated initials." "The text on Recto contains sections of two Lessons from the Feast of Saint Lucy, celebrated on December 13. Theilluminated 'E' in the left column begins the 7th Lesson: Et his auditis experge facta surrexit tremens et ait matri sue. The smaller script in the right column is a sung Response: Lucia virgo, quid a me petis quod ipsa poteris præstare continuo matrituæ? Nam et fides tua illi subvenit, et ecce salvata est: Quia jucundum Deo in tua virginitate habitaculum præparasti. Sicut per mecívitas Catanensium sublimatur a Christo, ita per te Syracusana cívitas decorabitur. (O Virgin Lucy, why seekest thou of me thatwhich thou thyself canst presently give thy mother? For thy faith hath helped her, and, behold, she is made whole. Because thouhast made in thy virginity a pleasant dwelling-place for thy God. Even as Christ hath by me glorified Catania, so by thee shall Heglorify Syracuse.) Then follows the 8th Lesson, beginning: Lucia dixit. Audi tu mater consilium meum. Condition: The leaf is in pristine condition apart from the small repair and a small (original) hole in the bottom margin. It has clean,fine vellum and jewel-like illuminations as colourful and lustrous as the day they were done, well over 500 years ago. It isunconditionally guaranteed genuine.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A445578/datastream/PDF/view