Leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin with rubrics in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum
Leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin with rubrics in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Northern France, c.1430s
Frame 24 x 29cm, observable image 12.5 x 17.5cm. 13 lines, written in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, two large initials in burnished gold on a blue and red ground with white tracery, both with accompanying foliate marginal sprays in penwork and gold with painted flowers; framed and glazed with both recto and verso visible under the glass.
This wide-margined leaf is from the Suffrages section of a Book of Hours; on the recto is the suffrage to St Nicholas, with the large initial opening the prayer, ‘Deus qui beatum Nicolaum pontificem tuum innumeris decorasti miraculis: tribue nobis quaesumus ut eius meritis et precibus a gehennae incendiis liberemur (O God, who adorned the blessed Nicholas thy priest with innumerable miracles, grant to us, we beseech, that by his favours and prayers we be freed from the fires of hell). The suffrage to St Giles opens on the verso, preceded by its antiphon, versicle and response. The inclusion of these two saints in a prayerbook for private devotion may point to an origin in a diocese where they were venerated, or perhaps held particular significance for the manuscript’s original owner. [FtC 480]
Leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin with rubrics in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Northern France, c.1430s
Frame 24 x 29cm, observable image 12.5 x 17.5cm. 13 lines, written in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, two large initials in burnished gold on a blue and red ground with white tracery, both with accompanying foliate marginal sprays in penwork and gold with painted flowers; framed and glazed with both recto and verso visible under the glass.
This wide-margined leaf is from the Suffrages section of a Book of Hours; on the recto is the suffrage to St Nicholas, with the large initial opening the prayer, ‘Deus qui beatum Nicolaum pontificem tuum innumeris decorasti miraculis: tribue nobis quaesumus ut eius meritis et precibus a gehennae incendiis liberemur (O God, who adorned the blessed Nicholas thy priest with innumerable miracles, grant to us, we beseech, that by his favours and prayers we be freed from the fires of hell). The suffrage to St Giles opens on the verso, preceded by its antiphon, versicle and response. The inclusion of these two saints in a prayerbook for private devotion may point to an origin in a diocese where they were venerated, or perhaps held particular significance for the manuscript’s original owner. [FtC 480]
Leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin with rubrics in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Northern France, c.1430s
Frame 24 x 29cm, observable image 12.5 x 17.5cm. 13 lines, written in a gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, two large initials in burnished gold on a blue and red ground with white tracery, both with accompanying foliate marginal sprays in penwork and gold with painted flowers; framed and glazed with both recto and verso visible under the glass.
This wide-margined leaf is from the Suffrages section of a Book of Hours; on the recto is the suffrage to St Nicholas, with the large initial opening the prayer, ‘Deus qui beatum Nicolaum pontificem tuum innumeris decorasti miraculis: tribue nobis quaesumus ut eius meritis et precibus a gehennae incendiis liberemur (O God, who adorned the blessed Nicholas thy priest with innumerable miracles, grant to us, we beseech, that by his favours and prayers we be freed from the fires of hell). The suffrage to St Giles opens on the verso, preceded by its antiphon, versicle and response. The inclusion of these two saints in a prayerbook for private devotion may point to an origin in a diocese where they were venerated, or perhaps held particular significance for the manuscript’s original owner. [FtC 480]