FROM A LARGE BOOK OF HOURS, WITH TEXT IN LATIN AND/OR FRENCH

by Offered Individually Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaves

$1,900 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

France probably Besançon : 3rd quarter of 15th century . 239 x 165 mm. 9 3/8 x 6 1/2 . Single column, 15 lines in an elegant gothic book hand. Rubrics in dark pink, line enders in pink and blue with white tracery and gold bezant, each leaf with a three- or four-line initial painted pink or blue with white tracery, filled with pink and blue vines and flowers, all on a burnished gold ground, ONE SIDE OF EACH LEAF WITH A HALF OR THREE-QUARTER BORDER

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