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384 pages | size 19.5 x 15 cm (h/w)
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Book reprint "The Landgrave Psalter"
This magnificent manuscript of early Gothic illumination was commissioned by Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia for his second wife Sophie. All initial letters are set off as golden majuscules, which are further enriched by foliate pen drawings. Some psalms are highlighted by particularly elaborate interlaced initials, which often reach a size of almost half a page. In addition to this extremely varied initial decoration, it is also the artistically decorated calendar pages and full-page miniatures that lend the Landgrafenpsalter splendour and preciousness. 384 pages, 127 pages of German comments. Size 19.5 x 15 cm (h/w).