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[ST GEORGE KILLING THE DRAGON]

Single leaf from a Book of Hours, with a large miniature of St. George spearing the dragon, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Low Countries (probably French Flanders)
mid-fifteenth century]
€1.800 - €2.200

Single leaf, 122 by 90mm, with single column of two sizes of 14 lines of lettre bâtarde, capitals touched in yellow, red rubrics, illuminated initials in gold foliage on burgundy or blue grounds, one small tri-lobed blue flower and a seedpod used as line-fillers, verso with a decorated border panel of coloured acanthus leaves and other foliage, recto with full border of same enclosing a human-headed snail drollery in bas-de-page, one three-quarter oval topped miniature of St. George in armour on horseback, spearing the dragon through the mouth as the king's daughter kneels in prayer in the background, some small chips to paint in places, a scuff to one illuminated initial, overall fair and presentable condition