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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 127 - closed 2/25/2009

Featuring 870 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #828: "[Book of Hours Leaf]" Anonymous

Manuscript medieval Book of Hours Leaf
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Estimate:
$170.00 - $220.00
Sold for: $85.00

Lot 828
By: Anonymous
Subject: Medieval Manuscripts
Date: 1470

Publication:

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 4.5 x 6 inches
11.5 x 15.3 cm

Fine vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours from a scriptorium in or near Rouen. The text is written in a regular bookhand with splendid marginal illuminations of flowers and leaves in bright colors on the verso. There are numerous decorative initials and line fillers on both sides painted in red, blue and burnished gold.

One small smudge on recto, else fine.

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