From An Attractive Book Of Hours In Latin

by Offered Individually Very Pretty Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaves

$300 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Paris: ca. 1450 . 159 x 108 mm. 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 . Single column, 15 lines per page in an excellent gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, each leaf with two or more two-line initials in burnished gold on red and blue ground with white tracery some also with one-line initials and line fillers similarly decorated , one or both sides with a swirling panel border featuring flowers, leaves, strawberries, and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems.

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