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 mostly prayers with 2 Scripture verses Psalm 70:1, 84:5 Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD. Psalm 70:1

This authentic, hand-written and decorated, Latin leaf on vellum has fifty six lines of prayer and Scripture text (Psalm 70:1 84:5) that are ruled in a faint, pale red ink, written in black ink in a handsome gothic bookhand, with 6 two line and 8 one line decorated initials in burnished gold on pink and blue geometric grounds, arranged alternately with white tracery infills, five linefillers in pink and blue with burnished gold and white tracery infills. There are traces of aging including, flaking, wrinkling, stains and modern pencil foliation.