Large and ornate white vine initial on a bifolium from a decorated Romanesque Psalter, manuscript on parchment [Germany, late twelfth century] Bifolium (apparently untrimmed, with lower border folded up), one large initial C (opening Cantate domino canticum … Psalm 96[95]) in a mass of scrolling white vine tendrils shooting from angular split bands of blank parchment, all terminating in stylised acanthus leaves and on brick-red, dark green and marine-blue grounds, 5 smaller initials in same green or red, with penwork picking out similar acanthus leaves, rubrics in red or blue ornamental capitals, small initials in red, single column, 28 lines in a tiny late Romanesque bookhand, small number of medieval marginalia, scuffed and darkened in places with some small holes in margins, folded over section split in places, but initial and reverse in good condition, each leaf approximately 210 by 142 mm.