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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    breadth, is a painting which by its design and colouring belongs to the characteristic examples of Italian art during the age succeeding Giotto, and might be ascribed to a famous artist, if we regard the composition and the quality of this work. The Pope wears only a single crown upon his hat in this picture, just asin the portrait of the same Pope painted by Giotto and engraved in Agincourt, Hist. de Art. oov4 5 AVIUM, Equorum, et Canum, 3 treatises in 1 vol. sm. 4to. finely written MS. on Vellum, with coloured mitials, the arms of a noble Italian family painted at binding, £10. 10s About A.D. 1390 The arms, which are party, seem to indicate in the first half the family of Montefeltro, and may therefore serve to connect this work with the library of the Dukes of Urbino. Morosini Missal. Orpo Missaris secunpuM CoNSUETUDINEM Romana Curia, cum Calendario, sm 4to. Sumptuous Manuscript on Vellum, illuminated by an Italan Minzatore on 291 eas (84 by 6 inches) and decorated with 5 Miniatures, uth elegant BorpERS; and 19 Initrats with part Borders, richly illuminated in gold and colours, besides several hundred Capitals, alternately in gold and colours, morocco super extra, gilt edges, blind tle in. the old style, by Hayday, £84. ? Rome, about a.p. 1420 This beautiful Manuscript appears to Tae been executed cypher (an interlaced P.M.) with Cardinal’s Hat, painted in the first beautiful border, and no other Cardinal of the century bore the same initials. The full-page paintings of the Crucifixion, the Service of the Mass, and the Penitence of David, are examples of Italian art of the best kind. clarissimi. oratoris. Oratio. de. Imperatore. diligédo. incip. feliciter, large folio. MS. on Vellum, with capitals elegantly wlluminated in the interlaced Italian style, 227 leaves, hf. bd. from the Didot collection, £30. about A.D. 1450 From the style of the writing, one would judge that the MS. was copied from a codex of the tenth century. There are occasional blanks, which show that the scribe was unable to decipher a few words of his original, and an irregularity in the 7 4
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