The Virgin within a mandorla, adored by angels, on a leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours, in Latin, on parchment [Central France (probably Bourges), c. 1480-90] Single leaf, with a large half-page arch-topped miniature enclosing the Virgin in blue robes edged in liquid gold, as she walks towards the viewer on a pathway formed from blue clouds, through a mandorla of adoring angels picked out in liquid gold on further blue clouds, all within a thin gold and deep red frame, initials in liquid gold on red and brown grounds, 13 lines of lettre bâtarde on recto and 9 on verso, folio no. 101 in later hand, excellent condition,167mm. by 105mm. From the same parent manuscript as the previous lot.
The Virgin within a mandorla, adored by angels, on a leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours, in Latin, on parchment [Central France (probably Bourges), c. 1480-90] Single leaf, with a large half-page arch-topped miniature enclosing the Virgin in blue robes edged in liquid gold, as she walks towards the viewer on a pathway formed from blue clouds, through a mandorla of adoring angels picked out in liquid gold on further blue clouds, all within a thin gold and deep red frame, initials in liquid gold on red and brown grounds, 13 lines of lettre bâtarde on recto and 9 on verso, folio no. 101 in later hand, excellent condition,167mm. by 105mm. From the same parent manuscript as the previous lot.
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