[ENLUMINATION] The dead and the living; a corpse on the ground Leaf from a book of hours. Office of the Dead. France, Picardy ? ca. 1430-1440 Size of leaf: 176 x 119 mm; size of frame: 235 x 174 mm Generally good condition. Note that the face of the "lively" figure is rubbed. Some rubbing to the borders. This folio comes from the same manuscript as lot 255. The borders of this folio are reminiscent of certain borders in manuscripts painted in the years 1430-1435 (Angers?), for example in the Grandes Heures de Rohan (Paris, BnF, latin 9471), in particular the bouquets of blue flowers on red stems and the borders with gilded vignettes. The shepherds' cloaks (and those of the "vif" in the miniature that follows) are reminiscent of the cloaks in illuminations painted in Parisian circles between 1400 and 1415, particularly the blue cloaks lined with fur in the illumination of the "Mort et du vif". The illumination appears to have been painted in western France, recalling the paintings attributed to an artist named after the Hours preserved in Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, ms. W.221 (see J. Plummer, Last Flowering, 1982 n° 25). Active in Brittany, probably in Rennes, this artist has stylistic origins further back in Paris (Maître de Luçon/Etienne Loypeau) and a closer relationship with the painter of Jeanne Raguenel's Breton Book of Hours, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, ms. 60.