IM-13565:  Original leaf from a French medieval illuminated manuscript Book of Hours. 17 lines of hand-ruled text written in Latin with black ink in fine bold gothic textura script on animal vellum with rubrics in red.

One two-line illuminated gold initial, fourteen one-line illuminated initials and one line extender alternating in burnished gold with blue penwork and blue with red penwork – many extending into the margins.

Origin:  Paris, France  circa 1425-1450    

Size :  6.1 x 4.5 inches,  (155 x 114mm) 

The one-line illuminated “Q” begins Psalm 114 (King James 115) 2-9: “Quia…” (Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him. The sorrows of  death  have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: and I called upon the name of the Lord…For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. I will please the Lord in the land of the living).

The Two-line illuminated gold  “A” begins Psalm 119 (KJ 120) 1-7: “Ad dominum…” (In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me. O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue…).

Provenance:   Written for the Use of Paris – Rare inclusion of St. Bruno in the Litany indicates possible ownership by a monk of the Carthusian Monastery of Vauvert (Order of St Bruno), Paris (established 1257, dissolved 1792).