Item Details
$325 - $550 (for leaves with panel borders, depending on decoration and condition); leaves without borders available for $65 - $150.
PJP Catalog: 60.419
A LOVELY SELECTION OF VELLUM LEAVES, OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, FROM A FINE MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS IN LATIN.
(15th century). 159 x 108 mm (6 1/4 x 4 1/4"). Single column, 15 lines per page in a fine gothic book hand.Leaves with varying degrees of decoration: Calendar leaves with large "KL" in burnished gold on a red and blue background with white tracery, text in blue, red, and black ink, and each with a swirling quarter panel border featuring flowers, leaves, strawberries, and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems; other leaves with one- or two-line initials and line fillers in colors and gold, almost all of these also with a similar quarter panel border (some with a panel border on both sides) Isolated trivial stains or imperfections, but EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN, AND FRESH LEAVES.
These leaves come from the same manuscript as those described in items #344-52, above. They are remarkably attractive, unusually well preserved, and meant to represent especially good value. (ST11774xxxx)