Eight leaves from an Italian Book of Hours

Item date: late 14th century
Grant Value: 100
Item cost pre-decimal: Not recorded
Item date acquired: 1964
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

4 leaves from the same Book of Hours, illuminated in the tradition of Niccolo di Bologna, were already in the possession of BL, donated by Professor Francis Wormald in 1943. New leaves contain 6 major miniatures and many three-quarter decorative borders with large twisted leaves and gold roundels. Illustrated as plate I of AR. Add MS 52639

Item Provenance
Collection of AW Botham, purchsed at Sothebys & December 1964