Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
07-08 December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/975
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    121 122 123 124 u **& ale sk tures in the lower border of deer or parrots; two or three top borders very slightly shaved, OTHERWISE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION THROUGH- OUT WITH WIDE MARGINS; bound in old green morocco gilt, g.e. m brown morocco case (93mm. by 68mm.) Norru Ivraian, c. 1480 A BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED Book OF HOURS EXECUTED WITH GREAT DELICACY AND SKILL, AND IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, [See ILLUSTRATION. | VELLUM, well written in a clear Italian gothic hand, 13 lines, 195 I1.; the first page following the Calendar with a small miniature of the Visitation and a finely painted border with a coat-of-arms in the bottom border; three other small miniatures (the one at the beginning of the Office of the Holy Cross discoloured) ; nine large initials painted in colours on a burnished gold ground, headings wm gold, smaller uutials in gold or blue; old Italian brown morocco gilt 8vo (140 mm. by 103 mm.) ITALIAN, XV CENT. ce of at % well written in a neat gothic hand, 19 lines, 190 1l.; FOUR FINELY EXECUTED FULL-PAGE MINIATURES IN GOLD AND COLOURS WITH BORDERS ; siz large listoriated initials painted on grounds of burnished gold with fine borders on dotted grounds introducing angels, birds, grotesques, etc.; numerous large initials in gold on coloured grounds with borders of gold dots and spiral work, smaller wmtials in red and blue, old vellum gilt 8vo (1438 mm. by 100 mm.) FLEMISH, EARLY XV CENT. The subjects of the four full-page miniatures are: 1. The Annuncia- tion; 2. The Agony in the Garden; 3. The Last Judgment; 4. The Harrowing of Hell. 15 lines to a page, written in a neat gothic hand, four large initials with borders in burnished gold and colours, 37 partial borders, old calf, bookplate of Sir Isaac Heard (94mm. by 64mm.) FLEMISH, EARLY XV CENT. Se , VELLUM, WRITTEN BY A SPANISH SCRIBE in a clear gothic hand iw red and black, 14 lines, 205 ll.; EIGHT FINE FULL-PAGE MINIATURES painted within naturalistic borders of flowers on coloured grounds; one un- finished full-page mimature drawn in outline only; numerous initials im gold on coloured grounds; some part borders in gold and colours introducing delicately executed figures of birds, imsects and other animals, red morocco gut, g.e. in brown morocco case 8vo (152 mm. by 110mm.) Spain [? Barcerona], c. 1480 the “ Adoration of the Magi,” opposite f. 41, and the “Three Quick and the Three Dead,” opposite f. 111—are much superior in exeeution to the others and are interesting specimens
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