"...ventus est vita mea: Nec aspiciat me.../...dies magna et amara val[de]..." Part of Matins, Third Nocturne, in the Office of the Dead, from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours known as the St. Alexis Hours. Contains Job 10, recto begins with the end of a responsory.

Full border of acanthus and rinceaux in gold and colors with birds and fruit. Roundel miniature in the outer central margin of recto and verso.

Recto: A man in blue walks down a grassy hill. He is wearing a black bag across his body and using a walking stick. "Alexius" is written in white near his feet. Historiated initial: Q (Quare): the head and shoulders of a figure with a white headdress against a decorated blue background. 

Verso: A man in a red outfit and a black hat is facing a woman in a blue dress. They are outside under a blue sky and appear to be touching hands.

This leaf offered by a private collector, current location: Baltimore, Maryland.

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