A very nice example of medieval European Bookart from c 1475. This is an authentic hand-written and decorated, Latin leaf on vellum. The text is Psalm 45:31-17. 46:1 This illuminated parchment leaf has thirty six lines of Scripture text that are ruled in pale brown ink, written in black ink in a handsome gothic bookhand, with eighteen decorated initials in alternating blue and red ink and one two line decorated initial with ornate red and blue penwork flourishes. The vellum leaf is in good condition with generous margins. There is also some staining and wrinkling with modern pencil foliation.

This was purchased by drs. Rob Duckers Assistant Director for Administration and Management Emerson College European Center, Kasteel Well, Kasteellaan 20, 5855 AE Well, The Netherlands tel: 0478-507131 (from abroad: +31-478-507131)



Dear Mike,
The leaves have just arrived safe and sound. I am very happy with them. Again, thank you so much, not only for handling this so swiftly, but also for your kind gift of the Italian hours leaf. It is much appreciated.
In a few weeks, I will receive the author's copies of the English commentary volume to the recent full color facsimile edition of the most beautiful and important Dutch manuscript ever made, the Hours of Catherine of Cleves (New York, Morgan Library Ms. M.917 and M.945), to which I contributed. As a token of my appreciation, I will send you a copy of this commentary volume free of charge.
As said, I will arrange for payment later today and will let you know the details in an email tomorrow.
All my best, Rob.

Dear Mike,
First of all, let me give you the details for the payment. The MTCN-code for this transaction is 601-178-0222. If you go to a Western Union Branch near you with a valid photo-ID and this number, you should receive $ 303,00 as per our agreement.
Certainly you may ask what attracted me to this leaf. You described it as a Book of Hours of about 1475, but in fact it is a leaf from a Psalter, dating to ca. 1200 (as indicated by the script, the layout and ruling and the decoration). I did not as yet own a leaf from that period; the earliest leaves I had until yesterday were two leaves from pocket-bibles of the middle of the 13th-century (one English one with pen-flourishing, several sister-leaves are in the Jeanne Miles Blackburn collection, and a French one, with a beautiful historiated initial). Since I use my collection also for teaching purposes, it is a nice addition in that I now have a nice example of proto-gothic script with an initial with pen-flourisihing from ca. 1200.