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Two leaves from Book of Hours
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“CONVERTE NOS, DEUS SALUTARIS NOSTER…”: BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF ILLUMINATED LEAVES FROM A FRENCH BOOK OF HOURS, CIRCA 1500, WITH RICH MINIATURE AND MANUSCRIPT PRAYERS CELEBRATING THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN MARYILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. Two illuminated leaves from a French Book of Hours. Paris (?), circa 1500. Two vellum illuminated leaves, one measuring 3 by 4 inches, the other measuring 3 by 3-1/2 inches; window-matted and -framed, entire piece measuring 13-1/2 by 16-1/2 inches. $12,500.Two vivid illuminated leaves from a French Book of Hours, circa 1500, featuring a richly painted miniature depicting the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and manuscript text of compline prayers. A bright and beautiful piece, handsomely framed.In Marian devotion, the mother of Jesus is also the Queen of Heaven. Since at least the 12th century, the Virgin Mary has borne the title Regina Coeli in much Roman Catholic liturgy and piety, as well as art. Her coronation proved a popular subject for medieval painters and, as this splendid framed piece demonstrates, scribes and illuminators. These lovely illuminated leaves, done on vellum, hail from a late 15th- or early 16th-century small Book of Hours, likely used in Paris. The leaf on the left (as viewed from the front of the frame) depicts, on the recto, a miniature of the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin in vivid red, green and blue inks with gilt embellishments, the scene surrounded by a border of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored folowers on black harline sprays, with text from Psalm 84:5: “Converte nos d[eu]s salutaris nost[er] et averte iram tuam a nobis” (Convert us, God, our savior, and turn your anger from us); on the verso (visible through the rear of the frame), the leaf bears 15 lines of calligraphic text, ruled in pale red ink, done in Gothic book script in brown ink, with large gilt initials, red, blue and gilt bar infills, and marginal foliate sprays. The leaf on the right bears 15 lines of comparable calligraphic text on both recto and verso (both pages visible). Originally derived from the Psalter, the Book of Hours was a medieval book of prayer containing “offices,” or sets of psalms, lessons, antiphons and prayers to be recited during each of the eight hours of the day. The present text, here in Latin and French, is drawn from the compline office (prayer at the close of day) for the Coronation of the Virgin.A beautiful piece, handsomely framed, in fine condition.
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