BOOK OF HOURS - Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.
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BOOK OF HOURS - Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.
Date: Paris, 1450
Format: 170 x 125mm.
Color: Beau col. d'époque.
Condition: Written in black ink, 14 lines of text in Latin, on vellum. Written on fine vellum, in a good gothic book hand in very dark, nearly black, ink. Size of vellum leaf 170x125mm. 11 lines of text.
Description
This vellum leaf has on each side a large 2-line initial illuminated in blue and red with white heightening, on a very heavily burnished gold ground. Illuminated borders of fine black penwork and numerous burnished golden dots, on the right-hand side sprouting from a golden barborder, and in the corners multicolored acanthus leaves.
250€
- N° Reference: 46979