Book of Hours, Use of Angers, Latin. France (Loire Valley), late fifteenth century

Single leaf. 145 by 105mm. Single column, 13 lines, ruled in ink, written space 70 by 44mm; calligraphic lettre bâtarde.

Text: Part of Lauds in the Office of the Dead.
Decoration: Versal capitals in blue or gold with penwork in red or dark blue; a 2-line initial in brown and blue heightened in gold.
Provenance: The parent manuscript was sold at Sotheby's, 6 July 1964, lot 246, to A. G. Thomas, Bournemouth. The Reed lead was purchased from Thomas’s catalogue 16 (1965), no. 12b.
References: Manion, Vines, de Hamel no. 96; Reed Early Bibles no. 53.
Shelfmark: RMM Fragment 34.

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).