This stunning hand painted and hand crafted pendant measures 1 1/2″ long (not including the ring) by 1 1/4″ wide by 3/4 thick. The case is brass and the delicately painted artwork is done on porcelain. I estimate that the piece is from the mid to late 19th century. To think of the person who [Continue]
This rare and beautiful manuscript leaf is an authentic mid-12th-century psalter fragment, written in Latin on vellum in a transitional hand between Caroline minuscule and early Gothic textualis. Likely produced in Italy, the leaf features three red rubricated initials and clean, well-formed script, originally intended for use in monastic liturgy or private devotion. Recovered from [Continue]