The collection is rich in liturgical and devotional works, legal documents, classical Latin and Greek texts, works of philosophy, science, geography, and a variety of other subjects and. These swirling arabesque designs in red, blue and green. The text is from the Office of the Dead, the psalms and prayers for relatives and friends who were suffering in purgatory, Psalms 5-7. The BPL’s early manuscripts collection is a major resource for the study of history, art, and communication during the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Europe. Major coloured initials introduce each book of the Practice, as shown below (folios 2r and 45r). This exquisitely crafted vellum leaf is highlighted by illuminated capitals painted in red, blue and liquid gold. These printers tried to make their books of hours appear as similar to the manuscript books as possible, even going so far as to mimic the red lines scribes used to keep their text uniform.
Illuminated manuscript books of hours were costly to make, and early printers realized the commercial value in printing larger quantities of illustrated books of hours at a lower cost. 1520-70 at which time, particularly in Oxford and Cambridge, they were taken to pieces for use by binders as pastedowns, wrappers, fly leaves, and reinforcing strips. This leaf is from the transitional period when the new technology of printing with movable type was combined with the more labor intensive methods of hand painting. Most of the fragments came from the best known books of the Middle Ages they survived intact in England until ca. This leaf is from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouin for Germain Hardouin librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l’enseigne Saincte Marguerite (bookseller living between the two gates of the Palace at the sign of Saint Marguerite) of Paris.
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