Medieval Book of Hours Leaf - Hours of the Cross

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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, and blue.

Northern France (Paris), c. 1420-30.

The two-line illuminated ''A'' begins: ''Adoro te...'' (I adore Thee, Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God...). The second two-line illuminated ''A'' begins:  ''Ave...'' (Hail True Blood of Jesus, given To our pilgrim hearts, that heaven May be ours, and endless bliss:  Hail, the Chalice of Salvation! Never had another nation Such a wondrous gift as this.  In the torrent ruby-glowing From the Savior's side out-flowing May my sins be washed away).

Provenance:  Sotheby's - ex G. Barilla of Geneva, and formerly Frederick Fowler collection (England c. 1820's). 

Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.

  • Inventory# IM-10517
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