Two leaves from a Book of Hours, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum
Two leaves from a Book of Hours, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum
[Northern France, second half 15th century]
Frame 45 x 36cm, observable images both 11.5 x 17cm. 16 lines written in lettre bâtarde, rubrics in red, one-line initials in alternate red and blue, one leaf with large initial in blue with marginal flourishing in red extending the height of the page, with floral terminals, catchword in the lower margin; framed and glazed, with both rectos and versos visible.
The first leaf is from Lauds in the Office of the Virgin, the large initial on the verso opening Psalm 148, ‘Laudate Dominum de caelis, laudate eum in excelsis…’. Its playful, decorative flourishing is similar to a leaf from the same Hours included in lot 10, Christie’s, 4 June 2020.
The text on the recto of the second leaf opens in Psalm 7, ‘Iudica me Domine secundum iustitiam meam…’ and the antiphon on the verso, ‘Nequando rapiat ut leo animam meam’ is from matins in the Office of the Dead (first nocturn, to be said on Mondays and Thursdays).
[FtC 483]
Two leaves from a Book of Hours, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum
[Northern France, second half 15th century]
Frame 45 x 36cm, observable images both 11.5 x 17cm. 16 lines written in lettre bâtarde, rubrics in red, one-line initials in alternate red and blue, one leaf with large initial in blue with marginal flourishing in red extending the height of the page, with floral terminals, catchword in the lower margin; framed and glazed, with both rectos and versos visible.
The first leaf is from Lauds in the Office of the Virgin, the large initial on the verso opening Psalm 148, ‘Laudate Dominum de caelis, laudate eum in excelsis…’. Its playful, decorative flourishing is similar to a leaf from the same Hours included in lot 10, Christie’s, 4 June 2020.
The text on the recto of the second leaf opens in Psalm 7, ‘Iudica me Domine secundum iustitiam meam…’ and the antiphon on the verso, ‘Nequando rapiat ut leo animam meam’ is from matins in the Office of the Dead (first nocturn, to be said on Mondays and Thursdays).
[FtC 483]
Two leaves from a Book of Hours, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum
[Northern France, second half 15th century]
Frame 45 x 36cm, observable images both 11.5 x 17cm. 16 lines written in lettre bâtarde, rubrics in red, one-line initials in alternate red and blue, one leaf with large initial in blue with marginal flourishing in red extending the height of the page, with floral terminals, catchword in the lower margin; framed and glazed, with both rectos and versos visible.
The first leaf is from Lauds in the Office of the Virgin, the large initial on the verso opening Psalm 148, ‘Laudate Dominum de caelis, laudate eum in excelsis…’. Its playful, decorative flourishing is similar to a leaf from the same Hours included in lot 10, Christie’s, 4 June 2020.
The text on the recto of the second leaf opens in Psalm 7, ‘Iudica me Domine secundum iustitiam meam…’ and the antiphon on the verso, ‘Nequando rapiat ut leo animam meam’ is from matins in the Office of the Dead (first nocturn, to be said on Mondays and Thursdays).
[FtC 483]