Texts From Laudes Vespers And The Suffrages

by Offered Individually Framed Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaves From A Book Of Hours In Latin

$1,950 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Northeastern France, probably Arras, late 15th century . 146 x 95 mm. 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 . Single column, 15 lines in a pleasing bâtarde hand. Attractively framed, leaves with full borders showing one side only, and the leaf with images of saints in double-sided glass frame showing both recto and verso. All leaves with rubrics in red, and one- and two-line initials in brushed gold on a red or blue ground, some leaves with three-line initials on orange

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