Beschreibung:

Leaf from a Psalter, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [England or Low Countries, reportedly for English market, last decades of the thirteenth century] Single leaf, with single column of 17 lines in an angular gothic bookhand, red rubric, one-line initials in gold or blue with contrasting penwork in red or blue (that in lowermost line extending in a foliate tendril down through entire border), one larger initial in blue with white circles enclosing foliage on a burnished gold ground, modern pencil folio numbers 121 and 100, trimmed at base, else excellent condition, 130 by 96mm.