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The Manuscripts offered here are not copies or reproductions. They represent the oldest and most beautiful examples of Renaissance art that are in existence today. These vellum (animal skin) manuscripts were part of Books of Hours that were used during the Middle Ages for Christian payer and meditation. Many are decorated with real gold. No complete books were destroyed to provide these quality leaves. Generally accepted principles of the antiquarian book trade, require that individual pages be provided from books that have been destroyed, or are otherwise incomplete.

Each Leaf comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, a Transcription and an English translation of the text. Careful examination will show that Scribes of this era frequently abbreviated words within the text, particularly well-known prayers or Scripture passages.

These authentic heirlooms are being offered here at affordable prices in attractive archival safe storage or display format. They are truly unique works of art can be presented as gifts that will be treasured by everyone who sees them now and for generations to come.

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	Rare March calendar leaf from a medieval illuminated manuscript Book of Hours. 17 lines of ruled text on animal vellum (c. 1470) {5017}
	A beautiful leaf from a Paris Book of Hours, (Vesper Devotions) is an excellent example of the transition from the hand written work to mechanical printing. This leaf was printed on vellum by Hardouin, who had his workshop near Notre Dame. (c. 1580) {5015}
	This beautifully decorated illuminated parchment leaf from a book of hours, was handwritten and embellished with gold-heightened initials in a French scriptorium ca.1450. The leaf has thirteen lines of Scripture text (Psalm 38:18-22, 51:1-3). {5063}
	This illuminated parchment leaf has twenty lines of religious text (Ps 109:1-19) that are ruled in pale red ink, written in black ink in a handsome gothic bookhand, with one 2-line line initial in burnished gold with black ground and white tracery, and twenty 1-line-high alternating blue and gold initials with contrasting red and black penwork flourishes. {5064}
	A rare example of Scribal Art. On line one and two of the verso is a human profile facing left which makes this a rare and unique leaf. There are ten uique and decorative linefillers in red, blue, brown and burnished gold in changing patterns. This is an authentic hand-written and decorated, Latin leaf on fine vellum. This illuminated parchment leaf has fifteen lines of Scripture text (Psalms 102:14-27) that are ruled in pale red ink, written in black ink in a handsome gothic bookhand, with fifteen decorated initials alternating blue and gold with contrasting red and blue penwork. {5065}
	A very nice example of medieval European Bookart. A Latin leaf on vellum. This illuminated parchment has fifteen lines of Scripture text (Job 14:4-6,13-16).One 2-line high decorated initial in burnished gold on red and blue geometric ground with white tracery infills. The marginal decoration is gold, green and blue leaves and flowers on tendrils. {5052}
	A beautiful vellum leaf from a breviary, written in a clear book hand in one column with one line high versal initials in alternating blue and red, one two line high ornate initial with pen flourishes in the margin. The pen work points in the direction of Holland, around 1450. {5016}

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