The Presentation in the Temple, miniature on one of three leaves from a Book of Hours, Use of Beauvais, in Latin and French [France (Amiens and Rouen), c.1430]

three single leaves, each 196x138mm, vellum, with (a) a miniature for None in the Hours of the Virgin; (b) a quatrain from a Psalter of the Virgin, a rubric in French ‘Au dimenche’, and the text of the popular hymn beginning ‘Ave porta paradisi …’, ending in the 8th 4-line stanza, the recto with a large foliate initial and full border, the verso with a partial border, and (c) with part of the 2nd to 7th 8-line stanzas of a hymn based on the Ave Maria (usually beginning ‘Ave virgo gloriosa, Peccatorum consolatrix …’), each side with a three-sided border incorporating a hybrid creature with a bearded human head

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From the same manuscript as the previous lot