An Exquisitely Hand Painted and Illuminated Initial ‘S’ from a Liturgical Music Manuscript, Late 15th or Early 16th Century. Manuscript Cutting on Vellum
An Exquisitely Hand Painted and Illuminated Initial ‘S’ from a Liturgical Music Manuscript, Late 15th or Early 16th Century. Manuscript Cutting on Vellum
An Exquisitely Hand Painted and Illuminated Initial ‘S’ from a Liturgical Music Manuscript, Late 15th or Early 16th Century. Manuscript Cutting on Vellum

An Exquisitely Hand Painted and Illuminated Initial ‘S’ from a Liturgical Music Manuscript, Late 15th or Early 16th Century. Manuscript Cutting on Vellum

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Title: An Exquisitely Hand Painted and Illuminated Initial ‘S’ from a Liturgical Music Manuscript, Late 15th or Early 16th Century. Manuscript Cutting on Vellum
Condition: Very Good

An exquisitely hand painted and illuminated initial, cut from a medieval manuscript antiphonary, probably from the late 15th or early 16th century. The script to the cutting is written in a solid gothic script. The large illuminated green initial ‘S’ is nestled on a pink-red background, and bears a lovely, illuminated border on a blue-grey background

One illuminated manuscript on parchment, 23.5 x 16.5 cm leaf size, 7.5 x 6.5 cm initial size

This manuscript is in very good shape, with minor soiling, and some staining to the margins on the recto.

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