15th century antiphonal fragment with beautiful illuminated "L" for St Lawrence japan Letterpress title to plates

Letterpress title to plates

Written by soldiers

Schouten was arrested by the VOC for breaking trade restrictions

Seminal work on the art and health benefits of gymnastics by the Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale

The manuscript later entered the celebrated collection of Baron Horace de Landau (1824–1903)

15th century antiphonal fragment with beautiful illuminated "L" for St Lawrence japan Letterpress title to plates15th century antiphonal fragment with a large gold leaf illuminated initial and decorated Lombard initials. Likely Italian in origin, dated c. 14501500. An antiphonal (or antiphonary) is a large liturgical choir book used in Christian monastic and cathedral settings. It contains the chanted portions of the Divine Office, particularly antiphonsshort liturgical texts sung before and after psalms and canticles. This is an eight leaf fragment. Each leaf