c 1450-75 Book of Hours leaf - Beautiful border - Psalm

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Original leaf from a medieval illuminated manuscript Book of Hours. 15 lines of red ruled text written in Latin on animal vellum in brown ink. (Size: 184 x 125mm – 7 ¼ x 4 7/8’’) 

Embellished with Five one-line illuminated initials and seven line extenders in burnished gold on red and blue ground with delicate white penwork. The panel borders contain a highly decorative floral design with flowers, berries, and acanthus leaves in blue, red, green, pink, and burnished gold.                            

France (Anjou), Use of Angers, c. 1450-75.

The text continues Psalm 94 (King James 95) 5-11: “Et ipse…” (And he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us. For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today if you shall hear is voice, harden not your hearts: As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works. Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart. And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest). 

The two one-line illuminated “A”s prompt the reader to recite the Hail Mary (Ave maria gracia plena…).

Angers was the cradle of the Plantagenet dynasty and one of the intellectual centers of Europe during the reign of Rene of Anjou, (1434-80). When this leaf was scribed the two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty, House of Lancaster & House of York, were engaged in the War of the Roses.

An attractive 550 year ol illuminated leaf is excellent condition.

Presented in an archival 14 x 11'' mat

  • Inventory# IM-12507
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