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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penworkVERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1450
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Leave from a Book of Hours on vellum.
Small but exquisite leave from a Book of Hours written in the Normandy, France, ca. 1450. Each side with several initials with extensive penwork in liquid gold.RECTO: One...
Place & Date: France, Normandy, c. 1450
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2015
Leave from a Book of Hours on vellum.
Small but exquisite leave from a Book of Hours written in the Normandy, France, ca. 1450. Each side with several initials with extensive penwork in liquid gold.RECTO: 7 o...
Place & Date: France, Normandy, c. 1450
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2014
Leave from a Book of Hours on vellum.
Small but exquisite leave from a Book of Hours written in the Normandy, France, ca. 1450. Each side with several initials with extensive penwork in liquid gold.RECTO: 7 o...
Place & Date: France, Normandy, c. 1450
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2014
Leave from a Book of Hours on vellum.
Small but exquisite leave from a Book of Hours written in the Normandy, France, ca. 1450. Each side with several initials with extensive penwork in liquid gold.RECTO: 8 o...
Place & Date: France, Normandy, c. 1450
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours on vellum.
RECTO: 1 two-lines and 1 one-line illuminated initials in burnished gold with infillings in red, blue and white and a flower. An illuminated panel on the right-hand side,...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1450
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2014
Manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours on vellum.
RECTO: 5 one-line illuminated initials in burnished gold with infillings in red, blue and white and a flower. An illuminated panel on the right-hand side, consisting of b...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1450
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2014
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: Two 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penworkVERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1450
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2018
BOOK OF HOURS
Manuscript leaf from a medieval book of hours on vellum, 11 lines of text, written in black ink,in a fine gothic hand. RECTO: A large 2-line illuminated Initial "L&q...
Place & Date: France/Paris, ca. 1450
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A very nice vellum leaf of a French Book of Hours, written around 1450 in Paris [or Rouen ?]. With elaborate pen work decoration in red, blue and black, especially around...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1450
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A very nice vellum leaf of a French Book of Hours, written around 1450 in Paris [or Rouen ?]. With elaborate pen work decoration in red, blue and black, especially around...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1450
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A very nice vellum leaf of a French Book of Hours, written around 1450 in Paris [or Rouen ?]. With elaborate pen work decoration in red, blue and black, especially around...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1450
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Miniature of Annunciation on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A large miniature of the Annunciation (82x60mm.) set in a border with flowers and a large 4 lines initial "D" underneath. Verso 16 lines in brown ink with 2 two...
Place & Date: France or Paris, ca. 1450
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A very nice vellum leaf of a French Book of Hours, written around 1450 in Paris [or Rouen ?]. With elaborate pen work decoration in red, blue and black, especially around...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1450
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A very nice vellum leaf of a French Book of Hours, written around 1450 in Paris [or Rouen ?]. With elaborate pen work decoration in red, blue and black, especially around...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1450
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2023
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A very nice vellum leaf of a French Book of Hours, written around 1450 in Paris [or Rouen ?]. With elaborate pen work decoration in red, blue and black, especially around...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1450
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A very nice vellum leaf of a French Book of Hours, written around 1450 in Paris [or Rouen ?]. With elaborate pen work decoration in red, blue and black, especially around...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1450
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A very nice vellum leaf of a French Book of Hours, written around 1450 in Paris [or Rouen ?]. With elaborate pen work decoration in red, blue and black, especially around...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1450
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2016
Manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours on vellum.
RECTO: One two-line illuminated initial in burnished gold with infillings in red, blue and white and a flower. An illuminated panel on the left hand side, consisting of b...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
Vellum leaf from a French or Flemish breviary with decoration typical of the scriptoria of northern France, the penwork is very similar to penwork of Holland, though the ...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1450
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Page from a 15th. century Book of Hours.
RECTO: 13 lines of text, written dark-brown ink, in a clear gothic book hand. With a large 3-line illuminated initial "D"eus... in burnished gold, infilled with...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A very nice vellum leaf of a French Book of Hours, written around 1450 in Paris [or Rouen ?]. With elaborate pen work decoration in red, blue and black, especially around...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1450
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.
The flesh side of the vellum has two large 1-line initials illuminated initials "G" and "E" in blue and red with white heightening on a very heavily b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1450
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2022
Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.
The flesh side of the vellum has 1 large 2-line initials illuminated initials "R" in blue and red with white heightening, on a very heavily burnished gold groun...
Place & Date: Paris, 1450
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2022
Leaf from a French book of hours, attributed to the workshop of the Master of Guillebert de Mets.
Large leaf from a French book of hours, on vellum written in black ink and written in an accomplished Gothic book hand. 15 lines of text.RECTO: Text for the mass of the â...
Place & Date: Southern Netherlands, ca 1450
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2023
A single leaf from the Gutenberg Bible (I King contains Numeri 18.44 until 20.22.
The Gutenberg Bible is the first great book printed in Western Europe from movable metal type. It is a monument that marks a turning point in the art of bookmaking and in...
Place & Date: Mainz, probably in late 1455
Selling price: $100
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Manuscript in Latin on parchment.
Book of hours in Latin on parchment. 150 x 110 mm. Calendar justification 90 x 50 m., 17 long lines, text justification 85 x 60 mm. 17 long lines, textura writing. Notes ...
Place & Date: Paris, 2nd half of the15th century, ca.1459
Selling price: $5500
Sold in 2023
Leaf from a manuscript missal, on vellum.
RECTO: 31 lines of text in two columns. Two very large and several other capitals in red or blue, to mark the different readings. This is leaf 16 (XVI) of a missal. The b...
Place & Date: Northern France, 1440-1460
Selling price: $300
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Manuscript leaf with 2-line illuminated capital
Fine leaf from a Book of Hours, Psalm 148 Laudate Dominum de Caelis, laudate eum in excelsis.. RECTO: one 2-line capital and five 1-line capitals. Surrounded by a borders...
Place & Date: Brugge, ca 1460
Selling price: $450
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Breviary, manuscript leaf on vellum.
RECTO: Large 2-line capital in blue, with contrasting penwork in red.VERSO: 2-line capital in red with extensive contrasting penwork and one 1-line capital in same.
Place & Date: France 1420-1460
Selling price: $100
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2 Leaves of vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
RECTO: 1 two-line initial (letter S) in burnished gold, on blue grounds. One-sided illuminated borders of penwork with gold dots with multicolored flowers in left border....
Place & Date: France, 1440 - 1460
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2009
Leaf of vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
RECTO: two 2-line initial on red ground and six 1-line initials with three line fillers all in burnished gold, on colored ground. Three-sided illuminated borders of penwo...
Place & Date: France, 1440-1460
Selling price: $400
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Leaf of vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
RECTO: 2 two-line initials in burnished gold, on blue our pink grounds. One-sided illuminated borders of pen work with gold dots, with multicolored acanthus leaves and pe...
Place & Date: France, 1440-1460
Selling price: $210
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Leaf on vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
RECTO:One large 4-line initial in red on a burnished gold ground, infilled with flowers in blue and red with white tracery. One 2-line and three 1-line capitals in burnis...
Place & Date: Flanders, middle 1440-1460
Selling price: $240
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground.VERSO: One 2-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds, five 1-line i...
Place & Date: France 1440-1460
Selling price: $240
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, seven 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds and four line fille...
Place & Date: France 1440-1460
Selling price: $240
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Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
A very rare leaf from a Book of Hours in Dutch, ca 1460. The decoration points in the direction of the Northern part of the Netherlands, very probably the Ijssel region [...
Place & Date: Netherlands ca. 1460
Selling price: $500
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BOOK OF HOURS.
Leaf, andwritten on vellum, from a Parisian book of hours. Text is part of the litany to all saints. Recto: 16 initials in burnished gold on colored grounds, "S"...
Place & Date: France, Paris ca. 1460
Selling price: $220
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BOOK OF HOURS.
Leaf from a Flemish/French book of hours. Recto:15 lines of text in a refined, gothic bookhand. One 2-line and six 1-line initials in burnished gold on multicolored color...
Place & Date: Northern France ca. 1460
Selling price: $275
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
VERSO: One 2-line capital in burnished gold with extensive penwork in blue in burnished gold and blue. Three 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $450
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line capital in burnished gold with extensive penwork in blue in burnished gold and blue. Two 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive p...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $300
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: Four 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penworkVERSO: Four 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $300
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1460. A beautiful vellum leaf from the calendar in a Book of Hours. This leaf details the month of March beginn...
Place & Date: France ca.1460
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, probably second half 15th century. The only decoration is the initials with pen work in red or blue and every other one with gold...
Place & Date: France ca.1460
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
A very rare leaf from a Book of Hours in Dutch, ca 1460. The decoration points in the direction of the Northern part of the Netherlands, very probably the Ijssel region [...
Place & Date: Netherlands, ca. 1460
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2008
Leaf from a Parisian book of hours, on vellum, 20 lines of text.
Written in brown ink, in a regular gothic bookhand.RECTO: nine large 1-line capitals, alternatively in sparkling burnished gold and blue,on contrasting colored penwork. ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.. 1460
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2015
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, probably second half 15th century. The only decoration is the initials with pen work in red or blue and every other one with gold...
Place & Date: France, ca.1460
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, probably second half 15th century. The only decoration is the initials with pen work in red or blue and every other one with gold...
Place & Date: France ca.1460
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-line initial, six 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds a...
Place & Date: France, 1440-1460
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2008
A manuscript leaf from 15th century Book of hours.
A page with psalms from a Book of Hours. RECTO: One 2-line intial "D"-e profundis clamavi and eight 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds. VERSO: On...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1460
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
A manuscript leaf on vellum from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: one 2-line initial on red ground and eight 1-line initials with five line fillers all in burnished gold, on colored ground. Three-sided illuminated borders of pen ...
Place & Date: France, 1440-1460
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-lines initials and three 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored g...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1440-1460
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line filler...
Place & Date: France 15th century.1440-1460
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2009
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 1 two-line initial "H" in liquid gold on a bl...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2013
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 1 two-line initial "I" in liquid gold on a bl...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 1 two-line initial "N" in liquid gold on a bl...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2013
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with fourteen 1-line initials in blue or gold with extensive...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in DUTCH in the town of Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 1 one-line initial "O" i...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with a large initial "J" in liquid gold on a blue ...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2010
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with a large 2-lines initial "O" Fourteen lines of...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2010
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with three 1-lines initials.VERSO : Fourteen lines of monast...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2015
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Nice vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written in the style of the scriptoriums of Rouen. Written in brown ink with red rubrics, line fillers, initials and decorat...
Place & Date: France ca.1460
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Fine manuscript leaf from a Flemish book of hours, on vellum.
15 lines of text in a large gothic bookhand, in darkbrown ink. three 1-line initials in burnished gold with blue penwork into the margin, and three 1-line initials in blu...
Place & Date: Flanders ca. 1460
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
A manuscript leaf from an Italian Book of Hours.
Charming small manuscript leaf from an Italian Book of Hours made in Naples.VERSO: Extensive marginal penwork and one 2-lines initial in liquid gold and one 1-line initia...
Place & Date: Naples, ca. 1460
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
A manuscript leaf from an Italian Book of Hours.
Charming small manuscript leaf from an Italian Book of Hours made in Naples.RECTO: Four 1-line initials in liquid gold or blue on colored grounds.VERSO: Three 1-line init...
Place & Date: Naples, ca. 1460
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2011
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
Fine page from a Book of Hours on vellum, with 16 lines in Latin written in a brown late Gothic book hand. RECTO : With two 2-lines capitals "D" - "Deus qu...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450-1460
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
Charming small manuscript leaf from an Italian Book of Hours made in Naples.VERSO: Extensive marginal penwork and one 2-lines initial in liquid gold and one 1-line initia...
Place & Date: Naples, ca. 1460
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2017
Leaf from a Flemish Book of Hours on vellum.
RECTO: A large colorful painted illuminated initial "D"eus ( 40mm x 35 mm) of the descent of the cross, painted in bright colors, heightened with burnished gold...
Place & Date: Flanders ca 1460
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Leaf from a Flemish Book of Hours on vellum.
RECTO: A large colorful painted illuminated initial "D"eus ( 40mm x 35 mm) of the crucifixion, painted in bright colors, heightened with burnished gold around m...
Place & Date: Flanders ca 1460
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1470 in or near Rouen. The decoration on the recto has flowers and leaves in bright colors and gold. There is o...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1470 in or near Rouen. It has decorative initials and linefillers in bright colors and gold.The text is written...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1470
Selling price: $130
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Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
The border on the recto is in the sophisticated ?fountains?-style with the acanthus leaves in red, green, and dark blue. This decoration is often found in books illuminat...
Place & Date: Haarlem ca.1470
Selling price: $180
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Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
The text is from the Book of Hours translated into Dutch, probably by Geert Grote: most Books of Hours were in Latin at that time, but Grote thought that even lay men sho...
Place & Date: Haarlem ca.1470
Selling price: $100
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Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
The border on the recto is in the sophisticated ?fountains?-style with the acanthus leaves in red, green and dark blue. This decoration is often found in books illuminate...
Place & Date: Haarlem ca.1470
Selling price: $225
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Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
The text is from the Book of Hours translated into Dutch, probably by Geert Grote; most Books of Hours were in Latin at that time, but Grote thought that even laymen shou...
Place & Date: Haarlem ca.1470
Selling price: $80
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A wonderful vellum leaf from a Dutch Book of Hours.
The border on the VERSO is in the sophisticated fountains-style with the acanthus leaves often found in books illuminated by the Masters of the Haarlem Bible. These maste...
Place & Date: Haarlem, c.1470
Selling price: $420
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A wonderful vellum leaf from a Dutch Book of Hours.
The border on the VERSO is in the sophisticated fountains-style with the acanthus leaves often found in books illuminated by the Masters of the Haarlem Bible. These maste...
Place & Date: Haarlem, c.1470
Selling price: $240
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Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
The border on the recto is in the sophisticated ?fountains?-style with the acanthus leaves in red, green, and dark blue. This decoration is often found in books illuminat...
Place & Date: Haarlem ca.1470
Selling price: $260
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Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
The border on the recto is in the sophisticated ?fountains?-style with the acanthus leaves in red, green and dark blue. This decoration is often found in books illuminate...
Place & Date: Haarlem ca.1470
Selling price: $235
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