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Lot 46
A COLLECTION OF OTTO EGE LEAVES, in Latin and Dutch, from nine ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM
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A COLLECTION OF OTTO EGE LEAVES, in Latin and Dutch, from nine ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM
[Italy, Netherlands, France, 13th--15th centuries]
10 leaves, most illuminated: (i) THE ENTOMBMENT, FULL-PAGE MINIATURE from a Book of Hours illuminated in the style of the Masters of Dirc van Delf, c.105 x 85mm, foliated '25' on the blank recto, [northern Netherlands, first decade 15th century]; (ii) THE LAST JUDGEMENT, FULL-PAGE MINIATURE WITH FULL BORDER from a Book of Hours illuminated by a follower of the Master of Guillebert de Mets, c.148x105mm, the originally blank recto with an added 16th-century inscription in French, [Flanders, mid-15th century]; (iii) THE CROSS IN A LANDSCAPE IN AN HISTORIATED INITIAL 'D', WITH A FULL RENAISSANCE BORDER, at the beginning of the Hours of the Cross from a Book of Hours, the verso with 12 lines in very finely written humanistic script by the Paduan scribe BARTOLOMEO SANVITO, c.120x80mm, [Italy, Rome, c.1480s]; (iv) DEATH PERSONIFIED AS A CORPSE IN A TOMB IN AN HISTORIATED INITIAL 'R' WITH A FULL BORDER, from the Office of the Dead in a Book of Hours, the recto blank, c.110x78mm, [north-east Italy, perhaps Ferrara, c.1480]; (v) an illuminated 5-line initial 'D' and border from a Book of Hours in Dutch, 16 lines, c.120x90mm, [northern Netherlands, c.1500]; (vi) leaf from a folio Bible, 2 columns of 60 lines, containing I Maccabees 4:12-6:1, red and blue initials, chapter numbers, and running titles, c.330x230mm [France, Paris?, mid-13th century]; (vii-viii) two leaves from an illuminated Book of Hours, with 1- and 2-line initials, borders, and line-fillers, 15 lines per page written in a very calligraphic bâtarde, c.108x75mm [France, mid-15th century]; (ix) leaf from the Hours of the Holy Spirit in an illuminated Book of Hours, old foliation '69', c.160x118mm [France, first half 15th century]; (x) leaf from an Ethiopian manuscript, written in Amharic in red and brown in two columns of 24 lines, c.190x165mm [Ethiopia, 19th? century]. Each mounted in a card folder.
An exceptionally fine group of leaves not from the fairly common portfolios put together by Ege, including a remarkable survival from a Book of Hours by the Paduan scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (see A.C. de la Mare and L. Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, 2009, pp.276-278, no 79). Other leaves are at the Lilly Library, Boston University, Sweet Briar College, and Oberlin College, but none with historiated initials are known, nor any from the Hours of the Cross.
[Italy, Netherlands, France, 13th--15th centuries]
10 leaves, most illuminated: (i) THE ENTOMBMENT, FULL-PAGE MINIATURE from a Book of Hours illuminated in the style of the Masters of Dirc van Delf, c.105 x 85mm, foliated '25' on the blank recto, [northern Netherlands, first decade 15th century]; (ii) THE LAST JUDGEMENT, FULL-PAGE MINIATURE WITH FULL BORDER from a Book of Hours illuminated by a follower of the Master of Guillebert de Mets, c.148x105mm, the originally blank recto with an added 16th-century inscription in French, [Flanders, mid-15th century]; (iii) THE CROSS IN A LANDSCAPE IN AN HISTORIATED INITIAL 'D', WITH A FULL RENAISSANCE BORDER, at the beginning of the Hours of the Cross from a Book of Hours, the verso with 12 lines in very finely written humanistic script by the Paduan scribe BARTOLOMEO SANVITO, c.120x80mm, [Italy, Rome, c.1480s]; (iv) DEATH PERSONIFIED AS A CORPSE IN A TOMB IN AN HISTORIATED INITIAL 'R' WITH A FULL BORDER, from the Office of the Dead in a Book of Hours, the recto blank, c.110x78mm, [north-east Italy, perhaps Ferrara, c.1480]; (v) an illuminated 5-line initial 'D' and border from a Book of Hours in Dutch, 16 lines, c.120x90mm, [northern Netherlands, c.1500]; (vi) leaf from a folio Bible, 2 columns of 60 lines, containing I Maccabees 4:12-6:1, red and blue initials, chapter numbers, and running titles, c.330x230mm [France, Paris?, mid-13th century]; (vii-viii) two leaves from an illuminated Book of Hours, with 1- and 2-line initials, borders, and line-fillers, 15 lines per page written in a very calligraphic bâtarde, c.108x75mm [France, mid-15th century]; (ix) leaf from the Hours of the Holy Spirit in an illuminated Book of Hours, old foliation '69', c.160x118mm [France, first half 15th century]; (x) leaf from an Ethiopian manuscript, written in Amharic in red and brown in two columns of 24 lines, c.190x165mm [Ethiopia, 19th? century]. Each mounted in a card folder.
An exceptionally fine group of leaves not from the fairly common portfolios put together by Ege, including a remarkable survival from a Book of Hours by the Paduan scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (see A.C. de la Mare and L. Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, 2009, pp.276-278, no 79). Other leaves are at the Lilly Library, Boston University, Sweet Briar College, and Oberlin College, but none with historiated initials are known, nor any from the Hours of the Cross.
A COLLECTION OF OTTO EGE LEAVES, in Latin and Dutch, from nine ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM
[Italy, Netherlands, France, 13th--15th centuries]
10 leaves, most illuminated: (i) THE ENTOMBMENT, FULL-PAGE MINIATURE from a Book of Hours illuminated in the style of the Masters of Dirc van Delf, c.105 x 85mm, foliated '25' on the blank recto, [northern Netherlands, first decade 15th century]; (ii) THE LAST JUDGEMENT, FULL-PAGE MINIATURE WITH FULL BORDER from a Book of Hours illuminated by a follower of the Master of Guillebert de Mets, c.148x105mm, the originally blank recto with an added 16th-century inscription in French, [Flanders, mid-15th century]; (iii) THE CROSS IN A LANDSCAPE IN AN HISTORIATED INITIAL 'D', WITH A FULL RENAISSANCE BORDER, at the beginning of the Hours of the Cross from a Book of Hours, the verso with 12 lines in very finely written humanistic script by the Paduan scribe BARTOLOMEO SANVITO, c.120x80mm, [Italy, Rome, c.1480s]; (iv) DEATH PERSONIFIED AS A CORPSE IN A TOMB IN AN HISTORIATED INITIAL 'R' WITH A FULL BORDER, from the Office of the Dead in a Book of Hours, the recto blank, c.110x78mm, [north-east Italy, perhaps Ferrara, c.1480]; (v) an illuminated 5-line initial 'D' and border from a Book of Hours in Dutch, 16 lines, c.120x90mm, [northern Netherlands, c.1500]; (vi) leaf from a folio Bible, 2 columns of 60 lines, containing I Maccabees 4:12-6:1, red and blue initials, chapter numbers, and running titles, c.330x230mm [France, Paris?, mid-13th century]; (vii-viii) two leaves from an illuminated Book of Hours, with 1- and 2-line initials, borders, and line-fillers, 15 lines per page written in a very calligraphic bâtarde, c.108x75mm [France, mid-15th century]; (ix) leaf from the Hours of the Holy Spirit in an illuminated Book of Hours, old foliation '69', c.160x118mm [France, first half 15th century]; (x) leaf from an Ethiopian manuscript, written in Amharic in red and brown in two columns of 24 lines, c.190x165mm [Ethiopia, 19th? century]. Each mounted in a card folder.
An exceptionally fine group of leaves not from the fairly common portfolios put together by Ege, including a remarkable survival from a Book of Hours by the Paduan scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (see A.C. de la Mare and L. Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, 2009, pp.276-278, no 79). Other leaves are at the Lilly Library, Boston University, Sweet Briar College, and Oberlin College, but none with historiated initials are known, nor any from the Hours of the Cross.
[Italy, Netherlands, France, 13th--15th centuries]
10 leaves, most illuminated: (i) THE ENTOMBMENT, FULL-PAGE MINIATURE from a Book of Hours illuminated in the style of the Masters of Dirc van Delf, c.105 x 85mm, foliated '25' on the blank recto, [northern Netherlands, first decade 15th century]; (ii) THE LAST JUDGEMENT, FULL-PAGE MINIATURE WITH FULL BORDER from a Book of Hours illuminated by a follower of the Master of Guillebert de Mets, c.148x105mm, the originally blank recto with an added 16th-century inscription in French, [Flanders, mid-15th century]; (iii) THE CROSS IN A LANDSCAPE IN AN HISTORIATED INITIAL 'D', WITH A FULL RENAISSANCE BORDER, at the beginning of the Hours of the Cross from a Book of Hours, the verso with 12 lines in very finely written humanistic script by the Paduan scribe BARTOLOMEO SANVITO, c.120x80mm, [Italy, Rome, c.1480s]; (iv) DEATH PERSONIFIED AS A CORPSE IN A TOMB IN AN HISTORIATED INITIAL 'R' WITH A FULL BORDER, from the Office of the Dead in a Book of Hours, the recto blank, c.110x78mm, [north-east Italy, perhaps Ferrara, c.1480]; (v) an illuminated 5-line initial 'D' and border from a Book of Hours in Dutch, 16 lines, c.120x90mm, [northern Netherlands, c.1500]; (vi) leaf from a folio Bible, 2 columns of 60 lines, containing I Maccabees 4:12-6:1, red and blue initials, chapter numbers, and running titles, c.330x230mm [France, Paris?, mid-13th century]; (vii-viii) two leaves from an illuminated Book of Hours, with 1- and 2-line initials, borders, and line-fillers, 15 lines per page written in a very calligraphic bâtarde, c.108x75mm [France, mid-15th century]; (ix) leaf from the Hours of the Holy Spirit in an illuminated Book of Hours, old foliation '69', c.160x118mm [France, first half 15th century]; (x) leaf from an Ethiopian manuscript, written in Amharic in red and brown in two columns of 24 lines, c.190x165mm [Ethiopia, 19th? century]. Each mounted in a card folder.
An exceptionally fine group of leaves not from the fairly common portfolios put together by Ege, including a remarkable survival from a Book of Hours by the Paduan scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (see A.C. de la Mare and L. Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe, 2009, pp.276-278, no 79). Other leaves are at the Lilly Library, Boston University, Sweet Briar College, and Oberlin College, but none with historiated initials are known, nor any from the Hours of the Cross.
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