[MONKEYS and a stag hunt]

Single leaf, 230 by 148mm, with single column of 34 lines of a rounded and angular late gothic bookhand (with Vespers of the Office of the Dead, 19 similar lines on verso), one-line initials in liquid gold on blue or brown-burgundy, line-fillers in same, 2-line initials in white woody sprigs on dull-gold grounds, text borders of dull-gold bars, those of outer vertical margins and bas-de-page on both sides containing scenes of: (i) a hunt, with a white hound chasing a deer from the bushes in a wide open landscape with a medieval town in the background, (ii) two monkeys loading barrels onto river barges in a canal, as another already in a barge used to support the gang plank plays a musical instrument, other barrels in the foreground and storehouses in background, (iii) a bird and a rabbit next to a fruit tree, and (iv) another monkey wandering through a grassy landscape towards a building, raising a fruit to his nose, as another monkey peeps at him from a tree, and a large butterfly clings to the top of a bush behind him, small details of these scenes heightened with liquid gold, small chips and smudges in places, slight darkening to outer edges of leaf, else in excellent condition