Book of Hours Leaf (Psalm 114 & 129)

This is an original leaf from a late-medieval manuscript Book of Hours. The text consists of 16 lines of red-ruled Latin text, with dark brown ink in gothic textura script on animal vellum. There are ten one-line initials and two line-extenders in gold on blue and mauve ground with delicate white tracery.The one-line illuminated Q” (recto) begins Psalm 114:2-9: “Quia?(Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him?I will please the Lord in the land of the living). The one-line illuminated “D” opens Psalm 129: “De profundis?” (Out of the depths I have cried to thee O Lord?).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 the 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.This leaf is encased within a double-sided mat within a sealed plastic envelope.

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