ILLUMINATED INITIAL ‘D’ on a leaf from a Psalter, in Latin, [Germany or northern Netherlands, c.1500]

A bright, eccentrically exuberant leaf from a Psalter. The borders are a mass of twining copper, blue, gold, pink and green acanthus leaves, dotted with discs of burnished gold. The spiky initial is similar to those found in northern Netherlandish manuscripts of this date, but the thick, eccentric borders have a more German flavour. It is plausible that the original manuscript was produced on the border between Germany and the Netherlands.

The text ‘Dixit Dominus Domino meo’ opens Psalm 109.

Measurements:
237 x 166mm. 29 lines of text.

Bibliography:
Kriezels, aubergines en takkenbossen, ed. A. Korteweg, 1992, p.153, no 150.

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