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)
Two two-line illuminated initials in burnished gold on blue and pink ground extending into the margin with a delicate rinceaux design in burnished gold, red and blue; four one-line illuminated initials alternating in deep blue with delicate red penwork, and burnished gold with delicate blue penwork.
Northern France (Paris), c. 1420-30.
This leaf continues an unusual segment in a Book of Hours devoted to the Passion of Christ.
The two-line illuminated ''D'' begins: ''Deus qui...'' (O God, who under a wonderful Sacrament hast left us a memorial of Thy Passion; grant us, we beseech Thee, so to reverence the sacred mysteries of Thy Body and Blood, that we may ever feel within ourselves the fruit of Thy Redemption: Thou who livest and reignest forever and ever. Amen).
The two-line illuminated ''A'' begins: ''Ad cenam cum discipulis...'' (At the Last Supper with the disciples...).
Provenance: Sotheby's - ex G. Barilla of Geneva, and formerly Frederick Fowler collection (England c. 1820's).
Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat
