Original leaf from a manuscript Book of Hours. 24 lines of text, ruled in red, written in Latin in an elegant angular gothic book-hand script on animal vellum. (178 x 125mm – 7 x 5’’) Capital letters in text are highlighted with yellow.
Unusual vibrant and elaborate panel borders on recto and verso in colorful floral motif in red, green, blue and white on gold ground.
France: Rouen, (Use of Rouen) c. 1470-90.
The leaf continues an uncommon section in a Book of Hours – The Passion of Christ – John 19:4 - 19: “Vobis eum…” (I bring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in him…When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants, had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him…They cried out: Away with him; away with him; crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar…Bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha. Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title also , and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews).
A lovely manuscript leaf with fresh and bright colors and gold. Excellent condition and content.
Presented in an archival 14 x 11'' mat.
