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Illuminated Miniature. Flight into Egypt, Illuminated miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, northern France, circa 1480, illuminated miniature on vellum, 175 x 122 mm (leaf), in blue, green, pink, yellow and red, and liquid gold, depicting Joseph leading the ass carrying the Virgin and Child in a predominantly green landscape and blue sky, with trees, plants and rocks, and the Miracle of the Corn, with 4 lines of text below written in brown ink in a fine gothic liturgical hand, ruled in red, 3-line initial with foliate infill, 2 one-line initials, and panel border incorporating foliate scrolls on hairline stems, verso with 8 initials (one 2-line, the rest one-line), mounted (Qty: 1) Provenance: Malcolm Rogers CBE FSA (1948-), British art historian and director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994 to 2015. The text is from Psalm 69, the beginning of Vespers in the Hours of the Virgin: Deus, in adjutorium meum intende; Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina (O God, make speed to save me, O Lord, make haste to help me).