Original leaf from a printed & beautifully hand-illuminated Book of Hours. Ruled for twenty-six lines of Latin text, printed in black on animal vellum. (163 x 108mm – 6 3/8 x 4 1/4’’)
Elaborate border on each side hand-painted with tempera colors in a floral motif with acanthus leaves, strawberries (symbol of perfect righteousness), and columbine (symbol of the Holy Spirit) on liquid gold ground.
Printed and hand-painted with rich sumptuous colors in the workshop of Germain Hardouyn - printer and highly skilled illuminator. Paris, c. 1532.
In purpose and format, printed Books of Hours followed the older manuscript examples. The more luxurious were printed on vellum.
This leaf continues the story of the Passion of Jesus Christ with John 19:4 - 23: “Vobis eum foras…” (I bring him forth unto you, that you may know that I find no cause in him. They cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him…Pilate saith to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar. Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified…And bearing his own cross, he went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha. Where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate wrote a title also and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews…”).
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