French illuminator (4 resultados)

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A late 15th century French illuminated manuscript vellum leaf, with full-page miniature cut from a poem in French on the Passion, depicting Caiphas seated on a throne with Christ brought before him by two sneering peasants in green, the reverse of the leaf has seventeen lines of text with line fillers and two capitals, miniature dimensions: 12cm x 8cm, overall leaf dimensions: 14cm x 9.5cm. Condition: VERY GOOD. A well-preserved example.…

Size of leaf: 177mm. by 131mm. 15 lines in an excellent early Gothic bookhand, text enclosed on three sides within thin gold and coloured bars, from which sprout swirls of rinceaux terminating in red, blue and gold leaves entirely filling all borders, water damaged in flood in August 1846, foliated in pencil '156' (text faded on recto)   This is a refined and elegant text leaf from what is perhaps the most famous dispersed Book of Hours in the history of manuscript collecting clearly dated by the scribe to '1408'. The parent manuscript was written by the Parisian scribe of Bodleian, MS. Douce 144, and illuminated by the celebrated Mazarine Master (see G. Bartz, Der Boucicaut-Meister, Tenschert cat. 42, 1999, p.85) and his workshop. The original manuscript bore the inscription which put a precise date on the manuscript : Factum est anno m. cccc. viii quo ceciderunt pontes parisius (referring to the floods which washed away the Petit Pont, the Grand Pont and the Pont Neuf in Paris on 29-31 January 1408). It is very unusual to find manuscript Books of Hours with a precise date, and of over 300 Books of Hours in Leroquais, Livre d'Heures.n 1927, only five examples earlier than 1530 have fixed dates. In the 19th century it was owned by the jeweller, John Boycott Jarman (d.1864), and was damaged during a flood in August 1846, prompting him to enlist William Caleb Wing to retouch some of the miniatures (see J. Backhouse in The British Museum Quarterly 32, 1968, pp.76-92). Thence his sale at Sotheby's, 13 June 1864, lot 47, to Edward Arnold, again his sale in same house, 6 May 1929, lot 240, and then Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968), his MS.W MS.103, who had most of the miniatures separately mounted, and gave some text leaves away. The remnant were sold in Sotheby's, 24 June 1969, lots 58 and 58A-K (see also Manion and de Hamel, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections , 1989, pp.96-8).…

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A late 15th century illuminated manuscript vellum leaf, from a French Book of Hours in Latin, c. 1480, with a detailed arched miniature of a burial measuring 7.5cm x 4.5cm, four lines of text below, surrounded by fruiting plants and foliate scrolls, the reverse of the leaf has fifteen lines of text with two gold and blue capitals, right hand side full-height border of flowers and leaves. Overall leaf size 11cm x 8.5cm. Condition: VERY GOOD. A well-preserved example.…

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A late 15th century French illuminated manuscript vellum leaf, from a Book of Hours in Latin, circle of Master of the Echevinage de Rouen, c. 1480, with a detailed arched miniature of The Flight into Egypt measuring 10cm x 7cm, depicting the Holy family with donkey fleeing through a hilly landscape, with the apocryphal miracle of the corn and two peasants, one dressed in a red tunic with blue leggings and a cap, the other in brown in the background, with a castle, and wooded landscape beyond. Three lines of text in Latin below in a rounded gothic liturgical hand in brown ink. A capital 'D' in purple, white and blue enclosing a red rose. Set within a brightly coloured panel border with red, blue, purple and brown segments decorated with gold sprays and panels with grapes and flowers including roses, hyacinths and lily. The reverse of the leaf with twenty-three lines of text with a panel border. Two two-line initials in liquid gold enclosing flowers and six one-line initials in gold against a red, blue or purple background. Six line fillers in blue, red or purple with gold decoration. Overall dimensions of leaf 16cm x 10.5cm, mounted, glazed (double sided), and framed, 33cm x 27cm. Condition: VERY GOOD. A well-preserved example. The miracle of the corn being a rare subject.…