Rouen, circa 1470 A.D. A finely detailed vellum leaf from a Rouen Book of Hours, comprising a three-quarter page arch-topped miniature composed of a complex Gothic archway, enclosing the Annunciation scene with the Virgin kneeling before her prie-dieu in a richly decorated Gothic interior, gazing at an open book, the Angel before her holding a sceptre, the Holy Spirit in the form of a small white dove descending from the highest corner of the room where God appears; full tessellated border with acanthus leaves, foliage and fruit on dull-gold or white backgrounds, two hairy wild men to the field, one holding a sword and the other a mirror, one four-line white initial; verso with fifteen lines with four one-line initials on burnished gold grounds with line-fillers in same, and two two-line initials containing shoulder-length portraits of two men; mounted in a glazed framed with a glazed window to the reverse showing the verso. 848 grams, 31 x 24.8 cm (12 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.). UK art market. with Sotheby's, 3 December 2008, lot 12(a). Private collection of the late David Miller, a prominent Hertfordshire collector and numismatist.