[Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum] 1 John 4:7-21 E-List 18 "WHS" blind-stamped on bottom of

"WHS" blind-stamped on bottom of rear pastedown

Each in His Own Tongue

-City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Printed in Caslon Oldstyle on fourteen sheets of loose folded handmade Hosho paper laid into a black cloth folder

[Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum] 1 John 4:7-21 E-List 18 "WHS" blind-stamped on bottom of1 John 4: 721. [Leicester, England, June 1923.] Illuminated manuscript on vellum, 4 pages of text in a formal textura hand, opening with a large burnished gold initial B; throughout, selected initials also in burnished gold. Neat colophon in a small formal hand on the rear pastedown: This book was made for Dr: Gertrude E. Austin Leicester June 1923. Contemporary full vellum over boards, the upper cover lettered 1 John 4 721; plain vellum pastedowns