Cutting, 250 by 215mm, trimmed to edges of initial, with a large initial 'S' (probably opening ""Spiritus Domini replevit orbem ..."", the introit for Whitsunday) in burnished gold, enclosing the Holy Spirit as it descends in the form of a dove to the Virgin and followers, who sit in a gothic temple reading books in their laps, all visible through a cut away wall and before a wide and mountainous landscape, the initial on blue and burgundy grounds with foliage picked out in white and yellow penwork, thin gold extensions from initial leading to bursts of pink and green stylised acanthus leaves in margin, with a single blue and red flowerhead and numerous gold bezants surrounded by penstrokes, reverse with two lines of text in a liturgical hand with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 32mm), and remains of a red folio no. in upper outer corner, slight scuffs (mostly to edges), else in good condition
