15th Century Medieval Book of Hours Leaf

Original leaf from a late-medieval manuscript Book of Hous. 16 lines of red-ruled latin text, with dark brown in in gothic textura script on animal vellum. Twenty-eight one-line initials and seventeen line extenderd in gold on blue and mauve ground with delicate white tracery. This leaf came from Northern France ( probably Rouen) and is dated around 1470. This leaf continues the Litany of the Saints.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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