Leaf from an English Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, with a miniature of the Virgin, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [England (probably London), c. 1420]

Single leaf, with a large initial 'O' (opening the Obsecro te prayer), in blue and pink heightened with white penwork, enclosing a tiny portrait of the Virgin holding a golden vessel, the whole scene heightened with liquid gold penstrokes, initial within a gold frame and with fleshy acanthus leaves and other foliage enclosing gold bezants spilling out into three margins, single column of 14 lines of a notably spiky English late gothic bookhand, trimmed at edges and borders slightly thumbed, split in midpoint of outer margin, 102 by 73mm.

From the same parent book as the previous lot.