[LIGHTING] The dead and the living; corpse on the ground Leaf from a book of hours. Office of the dead. France, Picardy ? circa 1430-1440 Sheet size: 176 x 119 mm; frame size: 235 x 174 mm Good overall condition. Note that the face of the "lively" figure is rubbed. Some rubbing at the edges. This sheet comes from the same manuscript as lot 255. The borders of this folio are reminiscent of certain borders in manuscripts painted in the 1430s-1435s (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 vignetting. The shepherds' cloaks (and those of the "vif" in the miniature that follows) are reminiscent of the cloaks in illuminations painted in Parisian circles in the years 1400-1415, especially the blue, fur-lined cloaks in the "Mort et du vif" illumination. The illumination appears to have been painted in western France, reminiscent of 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 more distant stylistic origins 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.