Original leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, with illuminations by a Master of the Boucicaut School. 15 lines of red-ruled, Latin text, written with dark brown ink in gothic book-hand script on animal vellum. (127 x 92mm) .
One two-line illuminated initial in burnished gold on blue and pink ground extending into the margin with a delicate rinceaux design in burnished gold, red and blue; five one-line illuminated initials alternating in burnished gold with delicate blue penwork and deep blue with delicate red penwork.
Northern France (Paris), c. 1420-30.
The one-line illuminated ''E'' begins part of Psalm 38 (King James 39): 5 ''Et numerum...'' (And what is the number of my days: that I may know what is wanting to me).
The one-line illuminated ''D'' begins Psalm 115: 7-8 (KJ 116: 16-17): ''Dirupisti...'' (Thou hast broken my bonds: I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord).
The one-line illuminated ''C'' begins Psalm 141 (KJ 142) 6: ''Clamavi...'' (I cried to thee O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living).
The two-line illuminated ''O'' begins a prayer: ''Omnipotens..." (Almighty, everlasting God...).
Provenance: Sotheby's - ex G. Barilla of Geneva, and formerly Frederick Fowler collection (England c. 1820's).
Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat
