From An Attractive Book Of Hours In Latin

by Offered Individually Very Pretty Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaves

$350 · 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 line fillers and multiple one- and two-line initials in burinshed gold on red and blue ground with white tracery, one or both sides with swirling panel border featuring flowers, leaves, strawberries, and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems. Isolated trivial stains or imperfections, but VERY

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