Book of Hours (France, 15th century)

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15th century

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Leaf from a book of hours (text on recto only), with a prayer for the deceased: "Domine exaudi. Inclina aures [corrected to m] tuam ad preces nostras quibus misericordiam tuam supplices deprecamur ut animas famulorum tuorum quas de hoc migrare iussisti in pacis ac lucis regione constituas et sanctorum tuorum iubeas esse consortes per Christum."

Single folio with a single column of fifteen lines ruled in red. Nine lines of text in faded brown ink on the recto side. Two illuminated initials: D (line 1, recto) is red with blue decoration and gold highlighting on a gold leaf ground; I (lines 2-3, recto) is blue on a red background with gold highlighting in a gold leaf frame, inhabited by a person wearing a white cowl looking downward. Decorative illuminated red and blue line fillers on lines 1 and 9. Top, bottom, and inner margins have thin borders of floral decoration: red flowers with blue stems outlined in black and detailed in white, on a background of gold paint. The border in the outer margin on both sides is much wider, with gold and white bands (which suggest a Loire origin): blue and gold acanthus-leaf decoration on a white background interrupted by triangles of gold-paint decorated with fairly realistic flowers.

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