Leaves from a Breviary, in Latin [Italy and Netherlands, 15th century]

115x90mm, vellum, 24 leaves (the last pasted down), ONE FULL-PAGE MINIATURE with Mary and the Child, 17 lines, 87x60mm, penwork initials, thumbed, pink velvet binding, rather worn

Misbound leaves from an Italian Breviary, including parts of the feasts of Sts Peter & Paul (ff.1r, 6r), Innocents (f.5v), John the Baptist (f.7r), the Ordination of Gregory (f.7v), Martin (f.8r), the Virgin Mary (f.12r), and Peter in Chains (f.13r), from the Sanctorale; Sundays after Easter from the Temporale (ff.11r, 21r); and One Confessor (f.17r), from the Common of Saints; with some Netherlandish leaves inserted (ff.3, 22-23 and back pastedown).