Illuminated manuscript leaf from a Missal.

Vellum, 40 x 31 cm. One marginal tiny hole to the left.

Framed under double-sided glass. Very good copy.

Fine manuscript leaf decorated on recto with a beautiful floral border and one large 3-line floral initial "B" in several colours, heightened with gold, and with two 2-line ornamental initials in red and blue penwork. On verso, one 2-line and one 3-line initial in red and blue with penwork extension into the margins. Text recto and verso: 20 lines in black and red Gothic hand. Ref. Fernando Villaseñor Sebastián, "El libro iluminado en Castilla durante la segunda mitad del siglo XV", Segovia, 2009, p. 404, fig. 111 and p. 421, fig. 149. - Lynette F.M. Bosch, "Art, liturgy and legend in Renaissance Toledo. The Mendoza and the Iglesia Primada", Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2000, fig. 91. - Book of hours illuminated in the same style in Monastery d'El Escorial in Madrid (ms. Vit. 11). - Kind information of Josefina Planas, Catedràtica d'Història de l'art medieval Universitat de Lleida: "J'ai pu établir des analogies avec des manuscrits enluminés, actuellement conservés à Ségovie ou avec la décoration marginale d'un livre de choeur sévillan".