Workshop of the Master of the Older Prayerbook of Maximilian A Textile Pattern, as a border on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Bruges?, mid-15th century; and Ghent? late 15th or early 16th century] c.210 x 150mm, 17 lines of text in fine gothic textura, comprising the beginning of the prayer ‘O intemerata’, surrounded by a full border patterned like a textile with gold quatrefoils on deep blue ground, modern foliation ‘35’ (cropped very close at the fore-edge, just touching the decoration, traces of mounting-tape). Provenance: (1) From the same parent manuscript as lots 50 and 51. (2) Sotheby's, 5 December 2000, lot 37 (col. ill.). The present leaf was described in M. Goehring, ‘Taking Borders Seriously: The Significance of Cloth-of-Gold Textile Borders in Burgundian and Post-Burgundian Manuscript Illumination in the Low Countries’, Oud Holland, 119 (2006), pp.11-40 at p.25 and no 16.
Workshop of the Master of the Older Prayerbook of Maximilian A Textile Pattern, as a border on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Bruges?, mid-15th century; and Ghent? late 15th or early 16th century] c.210 x 150mm, 17 lines of text in fine gothic textura, comprising the beginning of the prayer ‘O intemerata’, surrounded by a full border patterned like a textile with gold quatrefoils on deep blue ground, modern foliation ‘35’ (cropped very close at the fore-edge, just touching the decoration, traces of mounting-tape). Provenance: (1) From the same parent manuscript as lots 50 and 51. (2) Sotheby's, 5 December 2000, lot 37 (col. ill.). The present leaf was described in M. Goehring, ‘Taking Borders Seriously: The Significance of Cloth-of-Gold Textile Borders in Burgundian and Post-Burgundian Manuscript Illumination in the Low Countries’, Oud Holland, 119 (2006), pp.11-40 at p.25 and no 16.
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