Large initial enclosing St. Jerome writing, on a cutting from a grand Bible, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Austria (probably Vienna), mid-fifteenth century] Square cutting, with a large initial 'F' (opening 'Frater Ambrosius ...', Jerome's epistle 53 urging Bishop Paulinus of Nola to embrace and study the Scriptures, usually found opening the Vulgate Bible: Stegmuller 284 and 3306), in light grey swirls of acanthus leaves overlaid on dark grey panels, enclosing the author wrapped in a red cloak and wearing a galero, seated at a writing desk, and writing in an open book while gazing upwards, all on burnished gold grounds, sprays of blue-grey, pink and green acanthus leaves with gold fruit in margins, red rubric, 13 lines from a single column in an ornamental and angular hand whose descenders trail away to sharp tips, some paper adhering to back from old mounting, small spots and stains, else excellent condition, 169 by 140mm. Provenance: 1. Written and illuminated for a wealthy patron or grand community in Austria, probably in Vienna, towards the end of the second quarter of the fifteenth century, or in the years immediately after. This cutting is from the frontispiece of the parent manuscript, and another complete leaf has been catalogued by C. de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly, 2010, no. 65, pp. 146-147, where he also notes a further leaf in Columbia, University of Missouri, Ellis Library, Rare Res. BS 1254.L3M6.1450. 2. Perhaps owned by Erik von Scherling (1907-56): C.L. Ricketts acquired the Lilly leaf from von Scherling's cat. 11, Manuscript Fragments, Miniatures, Persian Miniatures, Greek Vases (1930), no. 953, but without mentioning a specific leaf or part of text there, suggesting he had several examples. 3. Les Enluminures cat. 5 (1996), no. 34: with clipping from that catalogue included, most probably thence to a North American collector (see de Hamel, p. 146). 4. Acquired by Roger Martin in Brunn Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen, 12 December 2017, lot 1750/6147. Published: Jonathan J. G. Alexander, 'The Author as Authority in theMedieval Illuminated Manuscript', in Bruce Ferrini and Les Enluminures, Important Illuminated Manuscripts, 2000, p. 15, fig. 7. C. de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly, 2010, no. 65, p. 146.
Large initial enclosing St. Jerome writing, on a cutting from a grand Bible, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Austria (probably Vienna), mid-fifteenth century] Square cutting, with a large initial 'F' (opening 'Frater Ambrosius ...', Jerome's epistle 53 urging Bishop Paulinus of Nola to embrace and study the Scriptures, usually found opening the Vulgate Bible: Stegmuller 284 and 3306), in light grey swirls of acanthus leaves overlaid on dark grey panels, enclosing the author wrapped in a red cloak and wearing a galero, seated at a writing desk, and writing in an open book while gazing upwards, all on burnished gold grounds, sprays of blue-grey, pink and green acanthus leaves with gold fruit in margins, red rubric, 13 lines from a single column in an ornamental and angular hand whose descenders trail away to sharp tips, some paper adhering to back from old mounting, small spots and stains, else excellent condition, 169 by 140mm. Provenance: 1. Written and illuminated for a wealthy patron or grand community in Austria, probably in Vienna, towards the end of the second quarter of the fifteenth century, or in the years immediately after. This cutting is from the frontispiece of the parent manuscript, and another complete leaf has been catalogued by C. de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly, 2010, no. 65, pp. 146-147, where he also notes a further leaf in Columbia, University of Missouri, Ellis Library, Rare Res. BS 1254.L3M6.1450. 2. Perhaps owned by Erik von Scherling (1907-56): C.L. Ricketts acquired the Lilly leaf from von Scherling's cat. 11, Manuscript Fragments, Miniatures, Persian Miniatures, Greek Vases (1930), no. 953, but without mentioning a specific leaf or part of text there, suggesting he had several examples. 3. Les Enluminures cat. 5 (1996), no. 34: with clipping from that catalogue included, most probably thence to a North American collector (see de Hamel, p. 146). 4. Acquired by Roger Martin in Brunn Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen, 12 December 2017, lot 1750/6147. Published: Jonathan J. G. Alexander, 'The Author as Authority in theMedieval Illuminated Manuscript', in Bruce Ferrini and Les Enluminures, Important Illuminated Manuscripts, 2000, p. 15, fig. 7. C. de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly, 2010, no. 65, p. 146.
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