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Northern France, c. 1400 (probably Paris on the basis of comparison with similar text pages in Meiss (French Painting).  This leaf illustrated in Hindman’s Important Western Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, 1987 #81.

This leaf continues the Obsecro Te (one of the most popular prayers of the Middle Ages): “Tuus descendit…” (Thy son our Lord Jesus Christ came down to take human flesh in thy most venerable womb: & by the most glorious joys, which thou hadst of thy son our Lord Jesus Christ: & by that holy & most great compassion, & most bitter grief of thy heart, which thou hadst when as thou didst behold thy son our Lord Jesus Christ, made naked before the cross, & lifted up upon the same, hanging, crucified, wounded, thirsting, & the most bitter drink of gall & vinegar put unto his mouth. Thou heardst him cry Eli, & didst see him die. And by those five wounds of the same thy son & by the sore shrinking together of thy inward parts, through the extreme grief of his wounds, & by the sorrow which thou hadst when thou didst behold him wounded. And by the fountains of his blood: & by all his passion…).