10. The Presentation in the Temple, single leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum, large miniature depicting the Virgin holding a large swaddling cloth, Chirist on an altar supported by the high priest Simeon, with male and female attendants, with arched windows and a pulpit behind, in an arched compartment, large initial ‘’D’ below, in blue and white on a gold background, decorated with flowers, and 4 lines of text, in a full panel border of foliage, fruit and flowers, in gold and colours, 10 lines of text on verso (ruled for 14) , fore-edge with similar panel border, 2-line initial in pink and white, decorated in gold, blue, white and green, little browned at edges, 155 x 110 mm., [? Rouen, c. 1470].
est. £1000 – £1500