Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
21 May 1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/739
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    oF MaastricHt }], MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, very well and clearly written in a good sotbie hand, 16 lines to a page, 108 leaves, THREE FINE FULL’PAGE MINIATURES WITH BORDERS, twelve large and fine ornamental initials in colours and burnished gold, six of them with diapered grounds, all with borders of flowers, ivy leaves, etc., modern blind-tooled brown morocco (152 mm. by 112 mm.). FiemisH. Ear ty xv CENT. rection. The risen Christ is showing His wounds. Behind Him are two angels, one with a sword, the other with a spray of lilies. Below are the dead looking from their graves. A fine diapered background. (3) The Crucifixion. Diapered background. (3) The Virgin and Child seated beneath a green curtained canopy. An angel to left draws the curtain aside. Diapered back- ground.
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