Description
Vellum folio from a breviary. Multiple capital letters in red and blue ink, decorated with fine penwork. There is a flaw in the lower margin. 14.5 x 9.9 mm. (Mounted on a matte.) Inventory: Text in Latin written in two columns on very fine vellum in an extraordinarily small gothic script - so small that there are 5 lines of text to the centimetre. Six two-line initials alternating in red and blue extensively embellished internally and externally with fine, assured pen flourishes in the contrasting colour extending into the margins. The versal initials alternate in red and blue and were added after the scribe had finished the text written in black.