Mapcase folder 6

Scope and Contents Description: Written in Latin on parchment. One leaf with text from the first antiphon for the Office of Vespers on the feast of All Saints. Decoration: an immense initial O measuring 170 x 175 mm in red and blue “puzzle” style infilled with impressively intricate pen work swirls within eight sections alternating in red and purple inks, all highlighted in contrasting colors. These same pen-work features, in the same colors, fill a dense border of "Moorish strap...