Book of Hours Leaf - Litany of the Saints - c 1510-20

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Original leaf from a manuscript Book of Hours. 22 lines of text, ruled in red, written in Latin in gothic book-hand script on animal vellum. (160x103mm).

Rubrics in red & line ending in red with liquid gold infill. Twenty-four one-line illuminated initials  and twelve line extenders in gold alternating in blue and red ground with gold penwork. 

Elaborate panel borders in a geometric design with acanthus & floral motif – much on liquid gold ground.       

Northern France, c. 1510-20.

From the workshop of Jean Coene (also known as the Master of the Paris Entries), a prolific artist who was active in Paris for the French court under Louis XII and Francis I, and also collaborated with the workshop of the Master Jean Pichoire. Coene’s quick painting technique and the careful finish of his miniatures led him to be one of the most successful artists for a high-ranking clientele in early sixteenth-century Paris.

This leaf continues the Litany of the Saints (first prescribed by Pope Gregory in 590 for a public thanksgiving following a plague that ravaged Rome). The leaf contains the section of “Pers” and “Uts” followed by the abbreviation for “O Lord deliver us” and “We beseech thee hear us”:  “Per misterium sancta…” (Through the mystery of thy holy incarnation, O Lord deliver us…That thou vouchsafe to govern and preserve thy holy Church, we beseech thee hear us…).  The next section begins: “Fili Dei…” (Son of God, we beseech thee hear us…Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world, spare us O Lord…Lord have mercy upon us…).

Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat

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