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Single leaf from a decorated manuscript Bible, with a historiated initial showing …

Auction 09.12.2015
09.12.2015
Schätzpreis
1.200 £ - 1.800 £
ca. 1.798 $ - 2.697 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 59

Single leaf from a decorated manuscript Bible, with a historiated initial showing …

Auction 09.12.2015
09.12.2015
Schätzpreis
1.200 £ - 1.800 £
ca. 1.798 $ - 2.697 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Single leaf from a decorated manuscript Bible, with a historiated initial showing St. Paul holding a sword and his epistle in the form of a scroll, in Latin on parchment [northern France (Paris), second half of thirteenth century] Single leaf, with an initial ‘P’ (opening “Paulus apostolus Christi …” the opening of III Timothy) formed of soft pink bars heightened with white penwork, enclosing St. Paul in orange and blue robes holding aloft a sword and a scroll, on a large panel of blue with tiles picked out in red ink with white dots, with extensions up and down border formed from coloured bars, bezants and drollery creatures, the upper tendril with a two-legged creature with a tiny and detailed bearded human face, the lower with a lacertine creature with an animal’s mask, 3 small initials in red or blue with long scrolling penwork in contrasting colours, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red, double column, 55 lines in a tiny university bookhand, marginal comments set within red ink boxes, some small marginalia including several ‘clover symbols’, trimmed at top with loss of most of coloured running titles, excellent condition, 242 by 153mm., in card mount

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 59
Auktion:
Datum:
09.12.2015
Auktionshaus:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Single leaf from a decorated manuscript Bible, with a historiated initial showing St. Paul holding a sword and his epistle in the form of a scroll, in Latin on parchment [northern France (Paris), second half of thirteenth century] Single leaf, with an initial ‘P’ (opening “Paulus apostolus Christi …” the opening of III Timothy) formed of soft pink bars heightened with white penwork, enclosing St. Paul in orange and blue robes holding aloft a sword and a scroll, on a large panel of blue with tiles picked out in red ink with white dots, with extensions up and down border formed from coloured bars, bezants and drollery creatures, the upper tendril with a two-legged creature with a tiny and detailed bearded human face, the lower with a lacertine creature with an animal’s mask, 3 small initials in red or blue with long scrolling penwork in contrasting colours, rubrics in red, capitals touched in red, double column, 55 lines in a tiny university bookhand, marginal comments set within red ink boxes, some small marginalia including several ‘clover symbols’, trimmed at top with loss of most of coloured running titles, excellent condition, 242 by 153mm., in card mount

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 59
Auktion:
Datum:
09.12.2015
Auktionshaus:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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