c 1490-1510 Book of Hours Leaf - Beautiful Borders - Rouen

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Original leaf from a manuscript Book of Hours. 25 lines of text, ruled in red, written in Latin in angular gothic book-hand script on animal vellum.  (160 x 115mm – 6 ¼ x 4 ½’’)

Two two-line illuminated initials in blue and white with floral infill on a gold ground; fifteen illuminated one-line initials and fourteen illuminated line-extenders in gold on a red or blue ground.  Unusual vibrant and elaborate panel borders in colorful floral and gemstone motif on a red or gold ground.        

France: Rouen (Use of Rouen) c. 1490-1510.

Style and execution of the miniature paintings in the parent manuscript are closely related to the Master of the Geneva Latini (see Walter 224 & 233 for examples).                  

The one-line illuminated “M” begins Psalm 5:5: “Mane…” (In the morning I will stand before thee, and will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity. Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.  Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie.  The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor. But as for me in the multitude of they mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear…All they that love thy name shall glory in thee: For thou wilt bless the just. O Lord, thou has crowned us, as with a shield of thy good will).

The two-line illuminated “L” begins Psalm 116 (KJ 117) complete:  “Laudate…” (O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth forever).

The two-line illuminated ”P” begins:  “Per te…” (Through thee, O Mother of God, has the life we had lost been given back to us: for, from heaven receiving Him who became Thy Son, thou on the world hast bestowed its Savior).

Presented in an archival 14 x 11'' mat

  • Inventory# IM-12876
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