DRAGON INITIAL ON A CUTTING FROM A NOTED MISSAL, IN LATIN [GERMANY OR FRANCE, FRANCONIA OR ALSACE?, MID-13TH CENTURY]

cutting, c.130 by 105mm, vellum, the main upright of the initial 'A' formed of a dragon, with another on the cross-bar, the reverse with parts of 12 lines of text in two sizes of script, the smaller script with neumes above each word, trimmed to shape, with small pigment losses but generally in good condition, the edges of the reverse with strips cut from a printed book or newspaper