A Physician with Two Amputees, miniature from an early copy of Bartholomaeus Anglicanus, Le Livre des proprietes des choses, in the French translation of Jean Corbechon, illuminated manuscript cutting on parchment [northern France (Paris), c. 1390] Square cutting, with a clean-shaven physician in white robes standing before two amputees on crutches, holding an ointment pot, a carved wooden stool behind him and a shelf with other pots above him, tessellated background formed from gold hairline strokes over yellow wash, all within thin gold frame, 18 lines of a fine vernacular French hand on reverse, scuffs and damage to reverse probably showing that miniature once laid down in album or on card, the white of the faces oxidised in places, small chips, cut to edges with slight loss to upper left corner of frame, but overall in good and presentable condition, in folding card mount, 100 by 88mm. This miniature is from an early and important copy of the French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicanus, Le Livre des proprietes des choses, in the hand of the artist Perrin (Pierre) Remiet , who was documented in Paris from 1386 to 1428. Other copies of the text were produced by him and an associate, Jean de Nizieres, for members of the French nobility in the years up to and around 1400, with complete copies surviving in that sold as part of the 'Arcana' collection, Christie's, 7 July 2010, lot 31, for £950,000 hammer (compare the notably similar composition of the same scene reproduced on p. 57 of that manuscript as reproduced in Sotheby's, 23 June 1998, lot 52); Bibliotheque de Ste-Genevieve, MS. 1028 (bought by Charles d'Orleans in 1396); and Paris, BnF. MS. fr. 216. Bartholomaeus Anglicanus was a Franciscan, who taught in Paris from 1224-31 and then in Magdeburg. Around 1245, he completed this text, and it rose quickly in prominence to become one of the greatest secular and scientific texts of the Middle Ages. It aimed to encompass all knowledge on the heavens and its beings, the elements and four humours, the human body (with the present miniature once standing at the head of that book), on illnesses and their treatment, on heavenly bodies, measuring time, matter and the elements, water and fish, earth and countries of the world, stones and metals, trees and plants, beasts, and phenomena without physical substance. The French translation was made for Charles V (1338-80), but his copy of c.1471 does not survive, and the chief importance of the earliest manuscripts, including this one, is as witnesses to the cycle of illustration designed for him.
A Physician with Two Amputees, miniature from an early copy of Bartholomaeus Anglicanus, Le Livre des proprietes des choses, in the French translation of Jean Corbechon, illuminated manuscript cutting on parchment [northern France (Paris), c. 1390] Square cutting, with a clean-shaven physician in white robes standing before two amputees on crutches, holding an ointment pot, a carved wooden stool behind him and a shelf with other pots above him, tessellated background formed from gold hairline strokes over yellow wash, all within thin gold frame, 18 lines of a fine vernacular French hand on reverse, scuffs and damage to reverse probably showing that miniature once laid down in album or on card, the white of the faces oxidised in places, small chips, cut to edges with slight loss to upper left corner of frame, but overall in good and presentable condition, in folding card mount, 100 by 88mm. This miniature is from an early and important copy of the French translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicanus, Le Livre des proprietes des choses, in the hand of the artist Perrin (Pierre) Remiet , who was documented in Paris from 1386 to 1428. Other copies of the text were produced by him and an associate, Jean de Nizieres, for members of the French nobility in the years up to and around 1400, with complete copies surviving in that sold as part of the 'Arcana' collection, Christie's, 7 July 2010, lot 31, for £950,000 hammer (compare the notably similar composition of the same scene reproduced on p. 57 of that manuscript as reproduced in Sotheby's, 23 June 1998, lot 52); Bibliotheque de Ste-Genevieve, MS. 1028 (bought by Charles d'Orleans in 1396); and Paris, BnF. MS. fr. 216. Bartholomaeus Anglicanus was a Franciscan, who taught in Paris from 1224-31 and then in Magdeburg. Around 1245, he completed this text, and it rose quickly in prominence to become one of the greatest secular and scientific texts of the Middle Ages. It aimed to encompass all knowledge on the heavens and its beings, the elements and four humours, the human body (with the present miniature once standing at the head of that book), on illnesses and their treatment, on heavenly bodies, measuring time, matter and the elements, water and fish, earth and countries of the world, stones and metals, trees and plants, beasts, and phenomena without physical substance. The French translation was made for Charles V (1338-80), but his copy of c.1471 does not survive, and the chief importance of the earliest manuscripts, including this one, is as witnesses to the cycle of illustration designed for him.
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