Single leaf, 137 by 95mm, with single column of 16 lines of two sizes of lettre bâtarde, capitals touched in yellow, red rubrics, one 2-line initial in gold foliage on blue ground, two historiated initials in white scrollwork on dark brown, enclosing detailed scenes of St. Fiacre with his spade before a short stockade (probably indicating he is in a garden) and St. Catherine with her wheel in an interior scene, these in hairline gold strokes on a dark brown ground (i.e. camaieu d'or, as championed by Jean Fouquet in Tours in the middle of the fifteenth century), each initial on a blue ground decorated with similar gold hairline strokes, a few small spots and marks, else in excellent condition
St. Fiacre of Breuil was a seventh-century hermit and pharmacological gardener who left his native Ireland for Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France, there founding a hermitage and hospice for travellers famed for its medicinal treatments. He is the patron saint of gardeners. Other leaves from the same parent-book have appeared in Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1986, lot 36, and 6 December 2001, lot 17; and Maggs Bros., cat. 1298 (2001), no. 48, and European Bulletin 26 (2008), no. 42
