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[CHRIST AS THE MAN OF SORROWS AND ALL SAINTS]

Single leaf from the Suffrages of the Saints from a Book of Hours with All Saints and Christ as the Man of Sorrows in two historiated initials, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[Flanders (probably Bruges)
mid-fifteenth century]
€800 - €1.200

Single leaf, 175 by 120mm, with single column of 17 lines of lettre bâtarde, red rubrics, one 3-line illuminated initial on pink and blue grounds, one large historiated initial on each page in pink or blue on gold grounds, text enclosed on both pages by a gold and coloured border with full decorated border of small coloured acanthus leaf sprays interspersed by swirls of hairline foliage ending in coloured flowerheads and fruit, as well as tri-lobed blue and dark pink flowerheads, some spots and smudges (notably in borders), overall presentable condition