| This authentic, hand-written vellum leaf has twenty six lines of Scripture text that are ruled in a faint red ink, written in black ink in a handsome gothic bookhand.
There seventeen one line initials, alternately in blue and burnished gold, and one three line burnished gold initial on a blue and red geometric ground with white tracery and a marginal decoration extending into the upper margin in mauve, blue and gold leaf. On the recto there is an erasure at the beginning of line 9 and also a correction in the margin of line 18 the word maris was left out by the scribe which was added later by a corrector. On the verso, line 6 the word reprobat was also left out and corrected.
The vellum leaf is in fair condition with traces of aging including, browning, soiling, wrinkling, stains and modern pencil foliation. |
