A prayer to be read at he time of Pentecost. A beautiful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in a clear book hand in one column in black ink in a handsome gothic bookhand, with four 2-line line and seven 1-line-high decorated initials in burnished gold on red and blue geometric grounds, arranged alternately with white tracery infills and embellished with a marginal decoration of gold, red and blue leaves and flowers on tendrils.

The Leaf size is about 165 mm. by 125 mm with generous margins. This illuminated parchment leaf comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Transcription and Translation of the text. The manuscript shows adhesive on recto, and modern pencil foliation with some stains and wrinkles. The treatment of the ivy spray with the single line stem and rather sparse foliage is characteristic of the work of the French monastic scribes about the year 1450 A.D. The occasional appearance of the strawberry indicates that the illuminating was done by a Benedictine monk. Fifty years earlier the stem would have been wider and colored, and the foliage rich; fifty years later the ivy and holly leaves would be entangled with flowers and acanthus foliage.