From A Very Fine Very Large Book Of Hours

by Offered Individually Illuminated Vellum Manuscript Leaves

$400 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Paris: ca. 1440 . 222 x 162 mm. 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 . Single column, 16 lines of text, in a beautiful gothic book hand. Rubrics in red, leaves with varying numbers of line fillers and one- and two-line initials in burnished gold, blue, and magenta highlighted with white tracery, and WITH LOVELY RINCEAU BORDERS on one or both sides, these composed of delicately twining hairline stems bearing red and blue blossoms and FEATURING A PROFUSION OF BURNISHED GOLD IVY

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