Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
September 1886
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/44
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (The M monogram is very much like the combined M H which Le Gascon used for Habert de Montmort.) 35737 PSEAUMES (LES SEPT) DE LA PENITENCE, traduits en Francois par Monsieur de Voisin, 12mo. MS. on Vellum, beautifully written in Roman and Italic characters, with some illuminated borders, decorative mnitials, and vignettes, original black morocco, £A. Liscrites a Brusselles par L. de Lavende, 1673 IV. ITALIAN. 35738 THE DEATH OF THE VIRGIN, A very remarkable Painting in tempera, on panel, of Byzantine (or perhaps of the Greco- Neapolitan) School, containing 28 figures, with burnished gold background, 12 in, by 9 in. im gult frame, £21. Sec. X11 The inscription at the top of the picture runs thus: ‘H Koipnote rij¢ Oeoroxov. This painting resembles very much, but is infinitely superior to, the picture engraved on plate 83 of D’ Agincourt, which he describes as Ruthenian, or Greco-Slavonic work. The Virgin lies dead in the foreground, but there are two smaller figures in front in which she appears on foot receiving the death summons from a sworded angel. On each side of the bier stand the Apostles; in the middle appears the Saviour by His mother’s side, with her soul borne as an infant in His arms. Behind and beside Him are the prophets, and the angels, with some female figures in the rear, while above them hovers, with sable wings outstretched, the Angel of Death. The background has architectural accessories. Giotto has left a picture evidently imitated from this. The painting is placed in this section as itis not improbable it was executed in Southern Italy or Sicily. 85739 Harty Irartan Scuoon. Two Miniatures in a gilt frame—1. A Scene in the Life of a Saint, introducing eight figures, apparently the foundation of a monastery or some religious edifice by a Pope, who wears a single- crowned mitre, 641n. by 5in. 2. Christ’s commission to Saint Peter, beautifully finished, 4 in. square, both from a large choral book, by an Italian artist, probably of the School of Pisa, £12. Sec. X11 85740 BIBLIA LATINA vureara, stout sm. 4to. illumi-
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