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[TWO LEAVES from a BOOK OF HOURS]

Two separate leaves from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Northern France (probably Paris)
c. 1500]
€180 - €260

Two leaves, each with text in single column of 21 lines of a professional bookhand, numerous one-line initials in gold brushwork, enclosing swirls of foliage on blue or pale burgundy grounds, line-fillers in same in rectangular or diamond shapes or formed of woody branches highlighted in hairline thin gold brushstrokes, each leaf with a decorated border of coloured and dull-gilt acanthus leaves and more realistic sprigs of foliage on blank vellum grounds flecked with tiny bezants and dots, each approximately 140 by 110mm.; in gilt frame and unexamined out of frame