[LEAVES and a CUTTING from a BOOK OF HOURS]

Two conjoined leaves and a cutting from another leaf from the same parent manuscript, the cutting with a large initial 'D' in blue on pale pink grounds, and enclosing a scroll of coloured foliage with trilobed circular leaves on a bright gold ground, the corresponding borders filled with coloured and gilt acanthus leaves and other foliage, one-line initials in blue with red penwork and gold with black penwork, red rubrics, 22 lines of text in a single column by a professional scribe; the bifolium with 6 2- or 3-line initials in gold on bi-coloured blue and pink grounds, with sprays of hairline foliage poking into the margins and terminating in gold seedpods and tri-lobed flowerheads edged in blue or pink; darkened at edges, a few spots and stains, else good condition, 225 by 160 and 155 by 105mm