(Illumination.) An artist's sketchbook, A4 size, bound in bl...

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(Illumination.) An artist's sketchbook, A4 size, bound in black faux leather. Titled 'Styles of Illumination used during the Middle Ages'. 38 pages of fine m/s calligraphy with decoration and embellishment, gold and colour, in the manner of medieval manuscripts. No author/artist, no date - but late 20th Century. Copies of the Lord's Prayer, texts from Ecclesiastes and Genesis and a '17th Century Nun's Prayer'. Also a copy, again in medieval style, of Max Ehrmann's prose poem 'Desiderata', a work first published in 1927 but which was briefly popular for a period in the 1970's; together with ‘The Rohan Master. A Book of Hours. Introduction and Commentary by Marcel Thomas.’, New York, 1973. Large 8vo. Original cloth. Dust jacket; ‘Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.’, Thames and Hudson, 1969. 4to. Plates. Slip-case (3)