Large illuminated initial on a leaf from a Franciscan Antiphoner, in Latin [Italy (Bologna), c.1300-25]

single leaf, c.555x370mm, vellum, with a large illuminated initial 'V' with partial border (for the antiphon 'Virtute magna...', for the Tuesday after Easter), 5 lines of text and music on four-line red staves, rastrum c.48mm, some flaking of ink and dirt around the edges but the initial in very fine condition 

From a slim volume of 15 leaves sold by the Liverpool bookseller Edward Howell, perhaps with his 19th-century price-code in pencil. With ownership inscription of Allan Heywood Bright, 1895. 

Probably made for the Franciscan convent in Bologna, and closely comparable with Bologna, Museo Civico, MS 534. 

From the same manuscript as the following two lots.