Lot 240 , Manuscript leaf from a book of hours illuminated in blue, red, rose, green and gilt; perhaps English, third quarter of the 14th century

Manuscript leaf from a book of hours illuminated in blue, red, rose, green and gilt; perhaps English, third quarter of the 14th century, parchment, 173 x 245 mm; headed in blue ink, c1840: 19th Psalm; attached at the foot: two tin or zinc roundels embossed with an image of a dove carrying an olive branch (Genesis 8.11)
the text begins in universa terra, the ending of the first verse of Psalm 8 – [Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum] in universa terra – here used as an introit. After a Gloria is the rubricated word Psalmus; there follow the first 11 and a fragment of the 12th verse of Psalm 18 – Celi enarrant gloriam dei to desiderabilia super aurum et [lapidem pretiosum multum, et dulciora super mel et favum].

The illuminated line-fillers – beaded horizontal lines in gold and blue – and the combined blue, rose and gilt treatment of the C of Celi – both resemble the equivalent text of British Library Add MS 44949, produced in the north of England in the third quarter of the 14th century.
£100-150

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