Beschreibung:

Five leaves from an early Book of Hours, of Dominican Use, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Flanders (Tournai), second quarter of the fourteenth century] Bifolium and three single leaves, each with single column of two sizes of 16 lines of a professional gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, red rubrics, one-line initials in gold or blue with yellow or red penwork, 2-line initials in blue or fawn enclosing coloured leafy foliage on burnished gold grounds, these with extensions into margin of coloured and gold foliage usually forming text frame on at least two sides, one page with a full decorated border of coloured and gold bars with geometric knots at their corners and sides, with two human drolleries standing on text frame at base (one a tonsured bearded man's head with rabbit-like hindlegs and the other wearing a cowl and with a bearded man's face for its hind-quarters, one marginalia of a long-necked bird craning its head over backwards to look at the text (perhaps used as a 'note bene' mark), some spots and stains, occasional thumbing to edges, trimmed at outer edges, overall good condition, each leaf approximately 120 by 88mm. The parent manuscript of these leaves was once owned by Henry Yates Thompson, and was in his descendants' sale at Christie's, 16 July 2014, lot 7. Other leaves appeared in our rooms, 7 December 2016, lots 39 and 40, and 6 July 2017, lots 53 and 54. The leaves here were all acquired by Roger Martin from the European trade in 2018.