Beschreibung:

Leaves from a Breviary, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum 4 leaves, 120mm. by 98mm., written space 78mm. by 52mm., single column, 18 lines in dark brown ink in a Gothic hand, a number of saints' names in Calendar beginning in red, line fillers in red and blue with simple liquid gold bezants, numerous 1-line initials in liquid gold with alternate red and blue penwork tracery, four roundels containing scenes from the seasons (a man carrying wheat and a man extending his hand to a bird - most probably a hawk - for May / June; a man killing an ox with an axe and a man baking bread in an oven for November / December) on burnished gold grounds enclosed by pink star-like frames, with border panels in liquid gold, pink and blue with white penwork tracery, two 8-line initials in pink touched with white penwork, and enclosing scenes of Christ as the 'Salvator mundi' holding the orb of the world in a fold of his cloak and blessing, beneath him a naked prostrate king, and a seated king, probably David, sitting beside a hairy devil with clawed feet, both set on burnished gold infill, all framed with blue, with white penwork and a burnished gold frame which extends into a border frame on two sides, terminating on one leaf in an animal head, and on the other in a small figure of a man who shoots at a line-drawn red bird high in the corner of the page above him, a modest erasure from the area of the naked king's genitals, some rubbing and flaking to gold, leaves slightly discoloured through use, else in good condition on thick and strong vellum