Superb vellum leaf from this important transitional period when books began to be printed from movable type, decorated with metal-cut illustrations and combined with hand-painted illuminated initials. The ornamental border is composed of illustrations depicting scenes from the Old and New Testament with the captions in red. These pictures explain the relation between the Old Testament and the Life of Christ. Thielman Kerver was a printer in Paris, who worked "in vico sancti Iacobi ad signum Vnicornis & ibidem venales habent" (in Saint Jacob's lane under the sign of the Unicorn where they are also for sale). Kerver's work is much less common than that of his colleague, Simon Vostre.

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Condition: B

Upper corner with an old vellum repair on verso.