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735 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1400 B   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.5 x 5 inches) This delicately crafted vellum leaf was created in France during the Middle Ages. On the verso is a large capital 'D' adorned within a vine border. The text is part of one of the most famous prayers to the Virgin of the Middle Ages: Obsecro te and O, intemerata. It is from the Gospel readings at the beginning of the Book of Hours. Following is a rough translation of the prayer: '...

736 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1400 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.5 x 5 inches) This delicately crafted vellum leaf was created in France during the Middle Ages. There are three illuminated capitals on the recto in blue, red and gold; on the verso are two adorned capitals

737 [Illuminated Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1430 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 6 inches) 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 leaf is illuminated on both sides with numerous initials and line fillers in red, blue, white and burnished gold leaf. The verso is decorated with a simple marginal ivy panel.

738 [Illuminated Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1460 A   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.6 x 6.4 inches) Delicately illuminated vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written in a regular gothic hand. The leaf has an elaborate panel border on both sides with beautiful renderings of ivy leaves, flowers and fruit in brilliant colors with highlights in burnished gold. The text is filled with large initials painted in red, blue, white and gold.

739 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1470 B   $500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 6 inches) 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.

740 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1470 B+   $190.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 6 inches) A lovely vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, created in or near Rouen. Both sides have many illuminated initials and line fillers in red, blue, white and liquid gold. The recto has a panel with a pen work vine dotted with flowers and fruit.

741 [Illuminated Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1475 A+   $1,700.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.5 x 5.3 inches) This beautifully decorated vellum leaf is from a French Book of Hours in the style of Maitre Francois, one of the leading artists of the school that dominated book illumination in Paris during the second half of the 15th century. The recto text is surrounded with an elaborate floral border in which an illustration of a sad woman rises from a cornucopia. A beautiful miniature painting within the ...

742 [Illuminated Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1480 A+   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5 x 7 inches) This is a very high quality vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours. The parchment is thin and creamy white with a beautifully painted panel of flowers and leaves in red, blue, green and gold. Both sides are embellished with finely illuminated two-line initials historiated with roses.

743 [Book of Hours Leaf] Medieval Manuscripts Anonymous 1485 A   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.6 x 6.4 inches) Delicately illuminated vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written in a regular gothic hand. The leaf has an elaborate panel border on both sides with beautiful renderings of ivy leaves, flowers and fruit in brilliant colors with highlights in burnished gold. The text is filled with large initials painted in blue, white and gold with a large 'Q' illuminated with a lovely flower.

744 [Book of Hours Leaf] Manuscripts Anonymous 1525 A   $75.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.8 x 5.3 inches) This simple leaf from a Book of Hours was written on paper either in Holland or the western part of Germany. The writing is not very regular and the decoration is very plain with some large initials in red ink, and a few flourishes of pen work at bottom.

745 [Book of Hours Leaf] Manuscripts Anonymous 1570 A+   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 6.5 inches) This appealing vellum leaf is from a very late manuscript French Book of Hours, made after the reforms initiated by Pope Pius V in 1568. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded, Roman hand, perhaps in imitation of printed type. There are a number of small colored and gilt initials on both sides, and one large 'D' on the recto illuminated with a beautiful flower. There are ma...

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