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[FLEMISH BOOK OF HOURS]

Single leaf from a Book of Hours, with birds in its decorated borders, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges)
c. 1460]
€400 - €600

Single leaf, 186 by 122mm, with single column of 26 lines of lettre bâtarde, rubrics in faded red, one- and 2-line initials in blue or brown edged in gold on contrasting grounds, line-fillers in same, each side with a full decorated border of grey and silver acanthus leaves and other foliage, all heightened in gold and within two thin gold bars, and enclosing a realistic flying bird, some marks at edges from old mounting, else good condition

The text here has the readings from the Hours of the Cross from Prime onwards

Illuminated manuscripts