Layout: 1 column, 15 lines Decoration: 10 1-line versal initials in alternating blue and burnished gold, the blue with contrasting red penwork and the gold with blue penwork Decoration: horizontal line fillers with elaborate penwork alternating in red and blue 1 3-line initial “D” in burnished gold outlined in black on blue and red grounds highlighted with white penwork, the grounds and gold extenders of the initial stretching up and down the margin the length of the text block Ruled in plummet Psalm 49 numbered "50" in later ink Provenance: Formerly the property of Otto Ege, Cleveland, OH. Ege broke this manuscript and distributed 40 of its folios as part of his portfolio set, Fifty Original Leaves. See Scott Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, HL 20 Provenance: Original parent manuscript sold at Sotheby’s, 1 June 1943, lot 105 Provenance: 17th-century inscription included elsewhere in the original codex: "Joseph Collet his Booke, March 17 1685/6" Psalms 48:16-49:5 Incipit: Verumptamen deus redimet animam meam de manu inferi… Explicit: Congregate illi sanctos eius qui ordinant testamentum eius
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