DPL Reed MMF16

Book of Hours, Latin. France or Flanders, late fourteenth century

Single leaf. 93 by 69mm. Single column, 12 lines, ruled in leadpoint, written space 54 by 38mm; liturgical hand.

Text: Heading and opening of the Penitential Psalms to Psalm 32:5.
Decoration: Initials in blue or gold with penwork in red or dark blue, one line-filler in blue and gold, large foliate initial in colours and burnished gold with ivy-leaf bar border with extensions around all margins and including a dragon in the outer margin; rubrics in red.
Provenance: Presumably purchased from the Folio Society. The parent manuscript, which comprised 115 leaves, was sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 137. Leaves were offered in five Folio catalogues published between 1962 and 1963. The verso of the Reed leaf is foliated '56' in old ink.
References: Manion, Vines, de Hamel no. 79; Reed Early Bibles no. 35.
Shelfmark: RMM Fragment 16.

Description reproduced from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections (London, 1989) by permission of the authors (Christopher de Hamel, Margaret Manion, and the family of Vera F. Vines).