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

Single leaf, with a large initial 'D' (opening Dilexi quoniam exaudiet ...., the Office of the Dead), in blue heightened with white penwork, enclosing a tiny portrait of a coffin draped with a black cross with a large white cross, surrounded by golden candlesticks and before a background heightened with liquid gold penstrokes, initial within a gold frame and with fleshy acanthus leaves and other foliage enclosing gold bezants forming a densely packed border on all four sides, one-line initials in blue or liquid gold with contrasting penwork, red rubric, 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 two lots.