Medieval Breviary Leaf c 1300 - Daniel & Hosea

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Original vellum leaf from a medieval manuscript Breviary.  33 lines written in Latin in double columns with dark brown and red ink. Five multi-line illuminated initials alternating in dark blue with delicate red penwork and red with delicate blue penwork – all extending into the margin.  (207 x 150mm - 8.3 x 6") 

France, c. 1300-25. 

The illuminated “T” begins Daniel 2: 31-34:  “Tu rex…” (You, O king, saw, and behold, something like a great statue…).

The next illuminated “T” begins Daniel 2: 35-40: “Tunc contrite…” (And so you looked until a stone was broken off without hands from a mountain …).

The illuminated “P” begins Daniel 2: 41-43:  “Porro quia…” (Furthermore, because you saw the feet and the toes to be part of potter’s clay…).

The illuminated “I” begins Daniel 2: 44-49: “In diebus…” (But in the days of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will inspire a kingdom that will never be destroyed,..).

The elaborate illuminated “V” begins prayers for the Fourth Sunday in November – Hosea 1:1-11: “Verbum...” (The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.  The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife...I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God...Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.  Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel...).  

Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat

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