Original leaf from a medieval illuminated manuscript Book of Hours. 14 lines of hand-ruled text written in Latin with dark brown ink in fine Gothic script on animal vellum. Nine one-line illuminated initials in liquid gold on alternating red and blue ground.
Origin: Flanders circa 1475.
Size: 90 x 67mm – 3 ½ x 2 5/8 inches, from a diminutive manuscript likely written for a lady.
The one-line illuminated “A” continues part of Psalm 50 (King James 51) 11-12; 14: 53 (KJ 54) 3 “Averte faciem…” (Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels. Strengthen me with a perfect spirit. Save me, O God, by thy name and judge me in thy strength…).
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