Decorations Book of Hours Use of the Netherlands
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All pages with these initials have three-side illuminated and colored boards, depicting flowers and leaves. More than one hundred two-line illuminated initials, gilt and colored and numerous one-line gilt initials and one-line colored initials in red and blue. The four leaves of the litany were alternately gilt and rend-and-blue initials to each line, remains of the lines filled out with blue ornamentation. Rubricated throughout. Large, regular script in red and brown. A few leaves with cont. marginal annotations.