The Nativity of Christ, miniature on a leaf and a text leaf from Books of Hours, in Latin [southern Netherlands (Bruges), c.1440-50 and north-western France, c.1440-50] two leaves, vellum, (a) 167x122mm, with a miniature for Prime in the Hours of the Virgin, 15 lines, 95x60mm, verso with two illuminated initials with gold ivy leaf sprays extending into margin, extremities of some border decoration very slightly cropped in a few places, an egg-white(?) glaze over the Virgin’s blue mantle flaking, but the pigment itself apparently unaffected; (b) 183x140mm, 15 lines, 102x73mm, with the end of the Hours of the Holy Spirit, from an unusually lavish Book of Hours, apparently with rubrics in gold throughout, and full borders on every written page, blank verso
The Nativity of Christ, miniature on a leaf and a text leaf from Books of Hours, in Latin [southern Netherlands (Bruges), c.1440-50 and north-western France, c.1440-50] two leaves, vellum, (a) 167x122mm, with a miniature for Prime in the Hours of the Virgin, 15 lines, 95x60mm, verso with two illuminated initials with gold ivy leaf sprays extending into margin, extremities of some border decoration very slightly cropped in a few places, an egg-white(?) glaze over the Virgin’s blue mantle flaking, but the pigment itself apparently unaffected; (b) 183x140mm, 15 lines, 102x73mm, with the end of the Hours of the Holy Spirit, from an unusually lavish Book of Hours, apparently with rubrics in gold throughout, and full borders on every written page, blank verso
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