Renaissance Book of Hours Leaf

Original leaf froma Renaissance manuscript Book of Hours. 15 lines of ruled text, written in Latin with lettre batarde in dark brown ink and blue ink ( which is highly unusual) on animal vellum. Ten one-line illuminated intials in gold/silver on red/blue or green ground.The two-line illuminated initial D” begins Psalm 44:8-16: “Dilexisti… ( Thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God, hath anoited three with the oil of gladness above thy fellows…).Book of Hours are personal prayer books of a devout and status-conscious society and are not only works of art, but cultural documents of their time. They reveal a unique combination of sacred and secular imagery-made of the finest materials, by the best craftsmen, for a small audience, which could both appreciate and afford them.

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