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A very nice example of medieval European Bookart from c 1475. This is an authentic hand-written and decorated, Latin leaf on vellum. The text is Psalm 40:11-15.

This illuminated parchment leaf has twenty six lines of Scripture text that are ruled in pale grey ink, written in black ink in a handsome gothic bookhand, with seven decorated initials in burnished gold (three initials) and blue ink alternating with black and red penwork flourishes. The vellum leaf is in good condition with generous margins. There are also minor traces of flaking, aging, soiling, edge flaws, and original flaws in the parchment.