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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 124 - closed 5/7/2008

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Lot #739: "[Book of Hours Leaf]" Anonymous

Manuscript medieval Book of Hours Leaf
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Estimate:
$700.00 - $850.00
Sold for: $500.00

Lot 739
By: Anonymous
Subject: Medieval Manuscripts
Date: 1470

Publication:

Condition: B
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Color: hand color

Size: 4.5 x 6 inches
11.5 x 15.3 cm

Handsome vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours. It was written in a regular book hand in the style of the Rouen scriptoriums. The recto is colorfully decorated with a wide floral border illuminated with birds and a snail, and a large initial containing a miniature of a saint. The verso is illuminated with numerous initials and line fillers in red, blue, white and burnished gold leaf.

There is some soil and small stains.

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