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.