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‎Book of Hours - Horae Beata Maria Virginis Collection of 2 incunable vellum leaves, printed and illustrated on both sides, from a 15th century Paris edition of ''Horae Beata Maria Virginis''.‎

‎ Paris, possibly published by Antoine Vérared and printed by Pierre Le Rouge, s.d. (ca. 1490) (with an old manuscript note in ink in the margin ''1492''). Each leaf in a mid-20th c. window mount. Finely preserved. The leaves measure 151 x 221 mm. Printed image size is 130 x 198 mm. Printed text surrounded by metal engraved minatures which have been very carefully coloured, some heightened with muschel gold. Each page contains 3 miniatures (size approx. 70 x 40 mm) in the outer margin and one at the bottem of the page. (In all both leaves contain 16 miniatures. One of the pages contains the text of ''Officium Sancti Spiritus- Ad primam''. The minatures on this page show Christ at the cross (canon plate), David with his harp, an angel with golden wings with two persons, a woman with a large gilt phenix with a halo. All other pages show similar miniatures: e.g Mary's flight from Egypt, Christ resurrection from the grave,Birth of Jesus (nativity scene in stable). The colouring of the miniatures is of the highest quality, with lively faces and delicate rendering of the clothes. The printed text, between the miniatures and borders contains many hand painted initials. Our identication is based on the description of a book of hours in the Tenschert collection (Item 1 in the catalogue Horae B.M.V. 158 Stundenbuchdrucke, Ausgabe Tenschert 2003). On pp. 31 of the catalogue is reproduced a page of a book of hours where the three miniatures appear in the same setting as our leaf (on top the Canon plate...) Tenschert's page is uncoloured and the captions are in French (ours in Latin). His Item 1 was once the book of hours of the French queen regnant Anne de Beaujeu. In this book the text is in manuscript, while our text is printed on directly on the pages. Price for the two leaves (framed).‎