Manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, produced in France

Text: From a Book of Hours, in Latin

Script: Textualis Formata (Textus Semiquadratus)

The text is from the Hour of Prime. There are fifteen lines of gothic text in brown ink with rubrics in red. Line ruling is in red ink.

On the verso is a four-line illuminated initial in burnished gold on a mauve and blue ground with white tracery, a three-quarter border composed of blue and gold acanthus, other coloured flowers and leaves and small gold leaves on hair-line stems. On the recto there is a side panel composed of coloured flowers and leaves and gold leaves on hair-line stems, separated from the text by a pink and gold bar border. Also on the leaf is one two-line and three one-line initials and two line-fillers in blue, mauve and burnished gold, and a red pen-drawn line filler.