A beautiful original bifolium manuscript leaf on fine vellum, written ca. 1490 in black ink, and embellished with gold illuminated initials and line endings. The text is Psalm 23:3-6, 25:1-5, 30:1-9. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalm 23:4

This authentic, hand-written and decorated, Latin leaf on vellum has sixty four lines of prayer and Scripture text (Psalm 23:3-6, 25:1-5, 30:1-9) that are ruled in a faint, pale red ink, written in black ink in a handsome gothic bookhand, with 2 two line and 21 one line decorated initials in burnished gold on pink and blue geometric grounds, arranged alternately with white tracery infills, nine linefillers in pink and blue with burnished gold and white tracery infills. At the bottom of the right leaf verso is a 'catchword' to assist the binder in matching this gathering to the next one. When the end of a gathering of eight or so pages was reached, the scribe made a mark, or catchword at the foot of the last page to assist the binder in matching it to the succeeding one. The verso ends with the word corruptionem. However, there was only room for corrrup the next page will begin with tionem numquid confitebitur tibi pulvis aut adnuntiabit veritatem tuam. to complete the verse. If you look closely at the bottom of this page you will see the catchword tio. There are traces of aging including, flaking, wrinkling, stains and modern pencil foliation.