Illuminated manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours: Full-page miniature depicting the Nativity recto, with the opening of the hour of Prime verso

      Rouen, ca. 1460-70. (NATIVITY) 8vo (6-7/8 x 4-7/8 inches). . . Miniature depicts Mary, Joseph, three angels, and the shepherds surrounding the infant Christ in the stable, within an architectural frame. Below the Holy Family is an Old Testament prophet, possibly Moses, with horns sprouting from his head, kneeling and clutching his foot, as God speaks from a bush. Verso is a floral, berry, and acanthus-leaf border to the left of the text, which has one large and several smaller illuminated capitals "Deus in adiutorium meum intende. Domine ad adiuvandum me festina. Gloria Patri. Alleluia." Followed by the hymn: "Veni creator spiritus mentes tuorum visita imple superna gratia que tu creasti pectora" Hymn: "Memento, salutis Auctor, quod nostri quondam corporis, ex illibata Virgine nascendo, formam sumpseris Maria, mater gratiae Gloria tibi" Antiphon "Maria virgo," followed by Psalm 1:1-3: "Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum, et in via peccatorum non stetit, et in cathedra pestilentie non sedit Sed in lege Domini fuit voluntas eius, et in lege eius meditabitur die ac nocte. Et erit tamquam lignum quod!"