Small collection of thirty-six cuttings from four illuminated medieval manuscripts, all on parchment [France and Low Countries, fifteenth century] Three sets of cuttings, all in folding booklets (numbered '1', '10' and '12'), comprising seven profusely decorated borders (the largest 115 by 55mm.) and twenty-nine small initials (the largest 24 by 12mm.) enclosing coloured foliage, good and bright condition; with a copy of a letter from Francis Wormald to John Steegman of the National Museum of Wales, dated 22 March 1952, discussing cuttings from a German Album Amicorum of the sixteenth or seventeenth century that were evidently once also part of this small collection.
Small collection of thirty-six cuttings from four illuminated medieval manuscripts, all on parchment [France and Low Countries, fifteenth century] Three sets of cuttings, all in folding booklets (numbered '1', '10' and '12'), comprising seven profusely decorated borders (the largest 115 by 55mm.) and twenty-nine small initials (the largest 24 by 12mm.) enclosing coloured foliage, good and bright condition; with a copy of a letter from Francis Wormald to John Steegman of the National Museum of Wales, dated 22 March 1952, discussing cuttings from a German Album Amicorum of the sixteenth or seventeenth century that were evidently once also part of this small collection.
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