Leaf from a Book of Hours, with a two-faced drollery in the border, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [France (probably Paris), 1460s]

Single leaf with single column of 14 lines of a late gothic bookhand, initials in blue touched with white on gold grounds, line-fillers in same, one decorated border panel of coloured and gilt acanthus sprays enclosing other foliage and fruit, with a fantastical grotesque at its centre formed from a bird body, with the head of a long-horned goat, and a long eared toothy face like a crocodile with a yawning muzzle emerging from its bottom, small spots, else excellent condition, 130 by 98mm.

From the collection of Roger Martin (1939-2020) of Grimsby.