A single leaf on parchment, c. 233 x 166 mm, from an attractive English Psalter with a three-line decorated initial with pen flourishing with faces and complex geometric line fillers.
 
The leaf is ruled in ink,c. 171 x 120 mm (ruled), written on twenty-one lines in dark brown ink in a gothic textualis script, with line fillers in burnished gold, red, or blue, with single line versal initials in blue or gold decorated with pen flourishes in red or blue, catchword to lower margin of verso, modern pencil foliation to lower corners.
 
The text contains Psalms 78:4-13 and 79:2-9. The text on the recto opens ‘et illusio his q[u]i i[n] circuitu nostro sunt’, (‘of scorn and derision to those around us’), and continues to the verso. The three-line decorated initial opens Psalm 79 on the verso, ‘Qui regis Israel, intende’, (‘Hear us, Shepherd of Israel’).
 
This single leaf comes from a Psalter that was listed in 2000 by Les Enluminures with Bruce Ferrini. The manuscript was later dismembered and individual or collections of leaves from the Psalter have come up for sale since.
 
There are debates on the origin of this manuscript, whether it is English or French. England, specifically the north of England, has been attributed on the basis of the style of decoration.
 
A very good example, the parchment is bright with very few spots of discolouration, the decoration is bright with very minor loss of gold to the line fillers and initials.