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[BOOK OF HOURS LEAF]

Leaf from a Book of Hours with two fantastical drollery beasts, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[France (probably Loire valley)
c. 1480]
€400 - €600

Single leaf, 196 x 124 mm, with single column of 24 lines in an excellent and precise late gothic bookhand, ornamental cadels in upper and outer margins, one- and 2-line initials in liquid gold with foliage in same picked out on blue, burgundy or dark brown grounds, line-fillers in same, each page with a decorated border of acanthus leaves and sprays of foliage and fruit on blank vellum and dull gold grounds, these with a drollery at their midpoints (both winged quadrupeds with bird beaks and long twisting tails, standing on large woody branches), very slight cockling in places, a few small spots and stains, else excellent condition