Fragment from a Book of Hours, in Dutch, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern Netherlands (perhaps Utrecht), mid-fifteenth century] 21 leaves (plus 2 modern paper endleaves at each end), continuous text of Terce and Sext from a set of minor hours (probably that of the Holy Spirit), collation: i-iii6, iv3 (last a singleton), single column, 18 lines in a late gothic vernacular Dutch hand, rubrics in red, small initials in alternate red or blue, tiny folio signature “xii” in contemporary hand at foot of fol. 15, two large illuminated initials in gold (somewhat crackled and scuffed away in places) on blue and soft pink angular grounds, the first initial with a clean-shaven human bust (perhaps the original owner) picked out in white within its body, and foliage sprays terminating in wheat-like bristly seedpods in the margin (compare those in a Bible illustrated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves and others, now Munich, Bayer. Staatsbibl. Ms. Cgm. 1102: Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting, 1990, no. 41; the Hours of Katharina van Lochorst, also illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves, Münster, Westfällisches Landesmuseum, Ms. 530: ibid. no. 47), the second with border panels of acanthus leaves and other foliage and bezants and a thin gold text bar, overall good and presentable condition, 168 by 113mm., twentieth-century cloth binding over pasteboards with “MS. / SAEC XV.” gilt tooled on spine
Fragment from a Book of Hours, in Dutch, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern Netherlands (perhaps Utrecht), mid-fifteenth century] 21 leaves (plus 2 modern paper endleaves at each end), continuous text of Terce and Sext from a set of minor hours (probably that of the Holy Spirit), collation: i-iii6, iv3 (last a singleton), single column, 18 lines in a late gothic vernacular Dutch hand, rubrics in red, small initials in alternate red or blue, tiny folio signature “xii” in contemporary hand at foot of fol. 15, two large illuminated initials in gold (somewhat crackled and scuffed away in places) on blue and soft pink angular grounds, the first initial with a clean-shaven human bust (perhaps the original owner) picked out in white within its body, and foliage sprays terminating in wheat-like bristly seedpods in the margin (compare those in a Bible illustrated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves and others, now Munich, Bayer. Staatsbibl. Ms. Cgm. 1102: Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting, 1990, no. 41; the Hours of Katharina van Lochorst, also illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves, Münster, Westfällisches Landesmuseum, Ms. 530: ibid. no. 47), the second with border panels of acanthus leaves and other foliage and bezants and a thin gold text bar, overall good and presentable condition, 168 by 113mm., twentieth-century cloth binding over pasteboards with “MS. / SAEC XV.” gilt tooled on spine
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