Live auction - Lot 1017
[Leaf - Liturgy]
Single leaf from a Book of Hours or a Prayer Book.
[15th c.]
Hammer price: €
200
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
1 f. (24 x 17 cm), 21 ll. (writing area: 13 x 9 cm), on vellum, in Latin, in a brown and red Gothic hand, two-lined burnished gold initials, capitals touched in yellow.
Good condition.
Joined, fragments on vellum: 1. One leaf with a three-quarter decorated border in the style of the Bruges school. [2nd half of the 15th c.]. (17,5 x 11 cm) (writing area cut). - 2-6. Five fragments of decorated borders, illustrated with flowers, peacock, goose, etc., two with a painted background and one with a coat of arms depicting a gold-rimmed bucket accompagnied by a quote from the Book of Deuteronomy (26:17) within a cartouche. Various sizes. (7 pcs)