Original leaf from a medieval Breviary. 20 lines of ruled Latin text, written in gothic liturgical bookhand script on animal vellum. (155x108mm)
Three two-line initials in heavy burnished gold with gold and pink or blue infill and extending into the margins in burnished gold with colors of blue, green, and orange with delicate white tracery; twenty-two one-line initials alternating in blue with red pen-work, and burnished gold with blue pen-work (many extending into the margin).
French Flanders, c. 1275-1300.
The first illuminated ''L'' (recto) begins the Hymn Lux ecce surgit aurea (See the golden sun arise! Let no more our darkened eyes snare us, tangled by surprise In the maze of sin…).
The illuminated ''M'' begins the Hymn Magnae Deus potentiae (O Sovereign Lord of Nature's might, Who bad'st the water's birth divide; part in the heavens to take their flight, and part in ocean's deep to hide…).
The illuminated ''T'' begins the Hymn Tu, Trinitatis Unitas (Three in One, and One in Three, Who rulest all things mightily, bow down to hear the songs of praise which, freed from bonds of sleep, we raise…).
Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat.
