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[AUGUSTINE]

Two cuttings with illuminated initials from a copy of Augustine, Tractate on John, in Latin, manuscript on vellum
[Alsace (perhaps Strasbourg)
c. 1460-70]
€600 - €800

"Two cuttings, 92 by 99mm. and 135 by 97mm, with initials from Augustine, Tractatus in Johannem, with a large initial 'I' (opening ""In isto evangelii capitulo dominus ..."") in burnished gold, with central panel of gold acanthus leaves, and an initial 'T' in pink acanthus leaves within spiky gold grounds, the central part not filled in, both cuttings with red rubrics, capitals touched in red, remains of lines in angular late gothic hand, small scuffs to gold, trimmed to edges and cockled, otherwise good condition"