ca. 1475 · Northern France
by A MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS, WITH A MINIATURE OF KING DAVID IN PRAYER, BY THE WORKSHOP OF MAÎTRE FRANÇOIS
Northern France, ca. 1475. 153 x 111 mm. (6 x 4 3/8"). Single column, verso with 16 lines in a gothic book hand.
Line fillers in pink and blue with white tracery and gold bezants, several one-line initials in burnished gold on blue and pink ground, one three-line initial in blue and filled with colorful foliage on burnished gold ground, WITH A HALF-PAGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURE OF DAVID IN PRAYER BY MAÎTRE FRANÇOIS OR HIS WORKSHOP, the text and miniature with bar border on three sides decorated with colorful foliage on burnished gold, and surrounded by a full border of acanthus leaves, dense rinceaux, colorful fruit and flowers, gold ivy leaves, and (truncated)
Line fillers in pink and blue with white tracery and gold bezants, several one-line initials in burnished gold on blue and pink ground, one three-line initial in blue and filled with colorful foliage on burnished gold ground, WITH A HALF-PAGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURE OF DAVID IN PRAYER BY MAÎTRE FRANÇOIS OR HIS WORKSHOP, the text and miniature with bar border on three sides decorated with colorful foliage on burnished gold, and surrounded by a full border of acanthus leaves, dense rinceaux, colorful fruit and flowers, gold ivy leaves, and (truncated)