The Annunciation to the Virgin on a cutting from an illuminated choirbook in Czech, on vellum [Czech Bohemia, c.1500] a cutting, 160mm. by 150mm., with a large initial 'A' in scrolling brown acanthus leaves heightened in liquid gold, enclosing the Virgin turning her gaze to meet the viewer, kneeling at her prie-dieu with an open book as an angel with red, blue and yellow wings approaches from the left and gestures towards her, on brightly burnished gold grounds and within a soft green frame, nine lines of Czech on reverse in angular script with ornamental cadels (an apparent encomium to the Virgin), capitals touched in yellow, one paragraph mark and initial in red, in excellent condition, in card mount
The Annunciation to the Virgin on a cutting from an illuminated choirbook in Czech, on vellum [Czech Bohemia, c.1500] a cutting, 160mm. by 150mm., with a large initial 'A' in scrolling brown acanthus leaves heightened in liquid gold, enclosing the Virgin turning her gaze to meet the viewer, kneeling at her prie-dieu with an open book as an angel with red, blue and yellow wings approaches from the left and gestures towards her, on brightly burnished gold grounds and within a soft green frame, nine lines of Czech on reverse in angular script with ornamental cadels (an apparent encomium to the Virgin), capitals touched in yellow, one paragraph mark and initial in red, in excellent condition, in card mount
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