Leaf from an illuminated Missal, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [probably Rhineland or perhaps northern Netherlands, late fourteenth century]

Leaf from an illuminated Missal, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [probably Rhineland or perhaps northern Netherlands, late fourteenth century]

Single large leaf, with double column of approximately 21 lines in an elongated and angular script, with sharp-edged wedges at head and foot of ascenders, with music in the form of hufnagelschrift neumes arranged on pale green and red clef lines, red and blue penwork knots used to fill space between words that accompany music, capitals in spiky penstrokes and touched in red, red rubrics, one large red initial leaving blank parchment foliage within its body, encased in blue penwork, 2 illuminated initials in burnished gold, on bicoloured blue and dark pink grounds heightened with white penwork, the first extending its gold body into margin in two long thin bars edged with blue and pink which extend the full height of the column and terminate in spiky gold leaves, contemporary folio number Li in red at head of page, modern pencil 76 in upper outer corner, 340 by 240mm.; gilt frame