

/ f. 40v, Historiated initial 'L'(evavi) of the Virgin taking Theophilus's bond from the Devil (Terce). The British Library, Additional 49999, f.40v. Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours') (formerly known as the Dyson Perrins Hours). Origin: England, Central (Oxford). Date: c. 1240. Language: Latin with French (Anglo-Norman). Script: Gothic. Dimensions in mm: 150 x 125 (115 x 80). Parchment codex. Provenance: William de Brailes (fl. c. 1230 - c. 1260), illuminator documented in Oxford between 1238 and 1252 in relation to several property transactions and as owning a house on Catte Street (see Donovan, The de Brailes Hours (1991), Appendix 5), illuminated by him: his signatures: 'W. de Brailes qui me depeint.' (ff. 43 and 47), made presumably for a woman: includes four images of a woman in prayer (ff. 64v, 75r, 87v, 88)

