The Annunciation to the Shepherds, large miniature of a leaf from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours on vellum a single leaf, 139mm. by 92mm., miniature in a gently arched compartment 84mm. by 55mm. showing two three-quarter-length shepherds leaning on their staves as they stand among their sheep in a night-time pastoral landscape, a gold angel appearing in a blue arc in the sky radiating light which catches the clothes of the shepherds themselves, above a large initial and 7 lines of text in a small lettre bâtarde (opening of Terce), full border on a parti-coloured ground of liquid gold and brown with coloured flowers and acanthus leaves and three birds, verso with 30 lines of text, written-space 94mm. by 56mm., rubrics in blue, illuminated initials and line-fillers, panel border, very slight wear, cut to extreme edge of the illuminated border
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, large miniature of a leaf from an illuminated manuscript Book of Hours on vellum a single leaf, 139mm. by 92mm., miniature in a gently arched compartment 84mm. by 55mm. showing two three-quarter-length shepherds leaning on their staves as they stand among their sheep in a night-time pastoral landscape, a gold angel appearing in a blue arc in the sky radiating light which catches the clothes of the shepherds themselves, above a large initial and 7 lines of text in a small lettre bâtarde (opening of Terce), full border on a parti-coloured ground of liquid gold and brown with coloured flowers and acanthus leaves and three birds, verso with 30 lines of text, written-space 94mm. by 56mm., rubrics in blue, illuminated initials and line-fillers, panel border, very slight wear, cut to extreme edge of the illuminated border
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