Saint Nicolas

Illumination

Gilles Hardouin, printer
Paris, France
ca 1515
Printed vellum, hand painted illlumination & initials
Leaf 7 1/4 × 4 1/2
Illumination 7/8 × 1 5/16

This leaf from a Book of Hours is from the period between 1500 and 1530, printed by a printing press yet retaining characteristics of earlier hand-written manuscripts, i.e., hand-painted illustrations and capitals, hand-ruled text on vellum.