FOLK ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT PRAYER BOOK
GERMANY. "Gebett buech zuem Gebrauch Meinner Dochter Maria Ursula JacQuel 1760" 1760
Manuscript Prayer Book, illuminated with hand decorated borders, 6 decorative Fleurons, and 28 copperplate engravings, final engraved page has marginal tears, iv + title + 382 numbered pages, 8vo. 19 x 12 cm. original leather with blind stamped borders and spine, defective a head and tail,
This Manuscript is inscribed on the title page "Prayer book for the use of my daughter Maria Ursula Jacquel" follows in the tradition of the Illuminated Manuscript of the Medieval Period. The copper plate engravings date from the 1740's.
£850.00
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Stock ref: 14435
