Medieval Book of Hours Leaf - Delicate Rinceaux Border

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Original leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours Leaf.  14 lines of Latin gothic textura script in dark brown and red ink on animal vellum.  (180 x 125mm).

Two illuminated two-line initials  and one illuminated one-line initial in burnished gold on a red & blue ground with delicate white tracery.  Delicate  rinceaux border in burnished gold, red, pink, green and blue.       

 Northern France or French Flanders, c. 1450

The one-line illuminated ''G'' the Glory Be: ''Gloria...'' (Glory be to the Father...).

The two-line illuminated 'A'' begins Ecclesiasticus (King James Sirach) 24:14: ''Ab initio...'' (From the beginning, and before worlds was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease: and in the holy habitation have I ministered before him). 

The two-line illuminated ''C'' begins the prayer: ''Concede...'' (Grant, O merciful God, help to our weakness, that we who commemorate the holy Mother of God, may by the help of her intercession [rise from our sins]).

Books of Hours are personal prayer books of a devout and status-conscious society and are not only works of art, but cultural documents of their time.  They reveal a unique combination of sacred and secular imagery - made of the finest materials, by the best craftsmen, for a small audience that could both appreciate and afford them.

Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.

  • Inventory# IM-10751
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