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[MEDIEVAL CALLIGRAPHY]

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[MEDIEVAL CALLIGRAPHY]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[MEDIEVAL CALLIGRAPHY] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>An original illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours, 3"x5", ca 1480. Flanders: Ghent/Bruges. An illuminated “A” in gold on red ground begins a prayer to St. Augustine with 15 lines of ruled text on each page. Penned in Latin with lettre bâtadre script in brown ink on vellum. General toning, o/w Fine. These personal prayer books of a devout and status-conscious society were ordered to be destroyed by Henry VIII in 1533 together with other books relating to the practices of the Church of Rome. Most of the remaining examples were held secretly in private hands.</span></p>