IM-13629: Original leaf from a medieval illuminated manuscript Book of Hours. 14 lines of text are written in Latin on animal vellum. Ruled in red with dark brown ink, in fine gothic script, with rubrics (headings) in red.
France, Picardy (Amiens?), circa 1325.
Size: 6.25 x 5.75 inches (155x115mm)
One illuminated two-line initial is inhabited with the portrait of a young man on a burnished gold ground with the initial in pink with delicate white tracery and extending into the margin with a floral design in colors and burnished gold. There aree also twelve illuminated one-line initials in burnished gold on red and blue ground and seven illuminated line extenders –containing fish, flowers or a rabbit in colors & burnished gold.
The one-line illuminated “V” begins Psalm 24 (King James 25) 18-22: “Vide…” (See my abjection and my labor; and forgive me all my sins. Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred. Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee. The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee. Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations).
The two-line inhabited initial begins Psalm 26 (KJ 27) 1-4: “Dominus…” (The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid? Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen. If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident…).
A very fine, elaborately illuminated leaf from an early book of hours, in the transition period from Psalters and Psalter-hours.
Shipped unmatted
