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Auction 108, Lot 662

"[Illuminated Leaf]", Anon.

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Subject: Medieval Manuscripts

Period: 1480 (circa)

Publication: Book of Hours

Color: Hand Color

Size:
3.5 x 5.7 inches
8.9 x 14.5 cm
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A museum quality leaf from an Italian Book of Hours, written on very high quality vellum. The text is written in a very fine humanistic book hand and the decorations are exquisitely executed. Each side contains several small initials in red, blue and gold and one four-line historiated initial painted in superb Renaissance style. The text is from the Hours of the Virgin, Vespers and has the full text of Psalm 121 and part of 126.

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Condition: A+

Estimate: $500 - $600

Sold for: $400

Closed on 9/29/2004

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