9. The Nativity, single leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum, large miniature depicting the Virgin, the Christ-child, St. Joseph, an Angel, an ox and an ass, in an open stable with wicker half walls, and a steeply pitched wooden roof, with a hilly landscape behind, in an arched compartment, large initial ‘’D’ below, in pink and white on a gold background, decorated with blue white and green flowers, and 4 lines of text, in a full panel border of foliage and flowers, in gold and colours, 13 lines of text on verso , fore-edge with similar panel border, 2-line initial in blue and white, decorated in gold, red and green, upper margin little trimmed, touching border and top of compartment, little browned at edges, 155 x 110 mm., [ ? Rouen, c. 1470].
est. £100 – £1500