TEXT PRESUMABLY FROM THE HOURS OF THE CROSS

by From A. Book Of Hours In French A.

$19,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Metz: ca. 1440 . Leaf: 162 x 124 mm. 6 3/8 x 4 7/8 . Frame: 308 x 258 mm. 12 1/8 x 10 1/8 . Single column, three lines of text under the miniature obverse with 18 ruled lines, five of which contain text , in a gothic book hand. Attractively matted and framed. Recto with one three-line initial in gold on pink and blue ground, WITH A LARGE MINIATURE OF THE CRUCIFIXION WASHED IN BLUE, Christ on a painted gold cross, flanked by two thieves on painted gold

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