Live auction - Lot 1181
[Book of Hours]
Calendar on vellum from a (English?) Book of Hours.
[15th c.]
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
8vo (19 x 13,5 cm): 6 ff., 34 ll., written in red and brown in a Gothic script (sl. soiled, blue offset on the back of last f.).
Sewn.
Decorated with burnished gold and blue initials, capitals touched in yellow. The Litany of Saints contains saints venerated in England, such as Edward the Confessor, Oswald, Æthelthryth and especially Hugh of Lincoln (celebrated four times).