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[TWO LEAVES FROM AN OPULENT BOOK OF HOURS]

Bifolium from a Book of Hours, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[France
c. 1440]
€700 - €900

Two conjoined leaves, each with text in single column of 17 lines of a good late gothic bookhand, one ornamental penwork cadel in upper margin on first page, red rubric, one- and 2-line initials and line-fillers in blue and pink enclosing coloured foliage on gold grounds, tiny sprays of foliage with gold leaves in the margins, each page with a wide vertical decorated text border of either coloured tri-lobed leaves and blue bauble-like fruit on gold or repeated acanthus-leaf sprays on gold, as well as decorated border panels of stylised rinceaux foliage and acanthus-leaf sprays, small spots and stains, else in excellent condition, 240 by 170mm

From the same parent manuscript as the previous lot