Layout: 24 long lines to a page, ruled with a plummet. Single vertical rulings bounding script-space at left and right and extending to edges of page. Double horizontal rulings at top of script-space. Script: Bastarda in red and brown ink. Decoration: Elaborate borders of fruits and flowers. Sixteen historiated initials. Twelve large miniatures, including one in Grisaille. Four additional large miniatures of late c15 inserted at the end. Binding: Bound in 16th century brown morocco, gold-tooled in Lyonese style. Four vellum fly-leaves. Dark brown portfolio in brown morocco case tooled on spine: Illuminated manuscript France 1460-70. Vertical catchwords. 8 additional leaves containing 4 miniatures bound in at end Text primarily in gatherings of 8 leaves, added miniatures at back confuse collation process towards the end, further research needed. Provenance: De Levis-Sir Godfrey Webster-Cecil Brent copy. De Levis arms painted in the lower border of the page bearing the miniature of the Annunciation. Armorial bookplate of Sir Godfrey Webster. Provenance: Rubber stamp signature of Cecil Brent. Additional heraldic device painted in color on inside back cover. Gift of Alfred Clark Chapin. Purchased on behalf of the Chapin Library from James F. Drake. Illuminated book of hours produced in Northern France, possibly Amiens. Written in Latin and French. At the end of this Book of Hours are bound four additional full-page miniatures, probably by a late 15th-century artist of northeast France.
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