ESPECIALLY PRETTY ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES FR...

CALENDAR LEAVES.

      Paris, ca. 1460 120 x 85 mm. (4 3/4 x 3 1/2""). Single column 17 lines of text in a fine regular gothic book hand. Calendar entries in blue red and thick burnished gold line fillers of the same design recto with a two-line KL (Kalends) in colors and burnished gold and with marginal extension in the form of gilt ivy leaves and EACH LEAF WITH A FINE SWIRLING QUARTER PANEL BORDER ON BOTH SIDES featuring flowers leaves strawberries and many burnished gold ivy leaves on hairline stems. The panel borders at the fore edge of half the leaves just slightly trimmed otherwise in EXCEPTIONALLY FINE CONDITION with the paint and gold bright fresh and entirely intact. These calendar leaves come from the same manuscript as the group of leaves described in the previous entry. $400 - $425 (depending on condition)