Workshop of the Master of the Older Prayerbook of Maximilian
Two leaves with scatter borders from a Book of Hours, use of Rome, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Bruges?, mid-15th century; and Ghent?, late 15th or early 16th century]
Two text leaves, c.210 x 150mm and c.210 x 145mm. 17 lines of text in fine gothic textura script, ruled space: 120 x 75mm, one leaf comprising the beginning of a suffrage to St Catherine of Alexandria, surrounded by a full ‘scatter’ border of naturalistic flowers and insects, butterflies, and a peacock, modern foliation ‘195’ altered to ‘196’ or vice versa (cropped close at the fore-edge, traces of mounting-tape, some wear including one diagonal crease); the other leaf comprising the beginning of the Mass of the Virgin, the border incorporating three caterpillars, a snail, a butterfly, a bird, and a vase inscribed ‘O MARI[A]’ (minor cockling and thumbing, minor glue stains at the gutter edge). Provenance: (1) From the same parent manuscript as lot 50. (2) These two leaves were purchased from Ursus Rare Books, New York, Catalogue 150: Humanism [1990?], no 108 (frontispiece and ills.) priced at $20,000 for the pair.
Workshop of the Master of the Older Prayerbook of Maximilian
Two leaves with scatter borders from a Book of Hours, use of Rome, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Bruges?, mid-15th century; and Ghent?, late 15th or early 16th century]
Two text leaves, c.210 x 150mm and c.210 x 145mm. 17 lines of text in fine gothic textura script, ruled space: 120 x 75mm, one leaf comprising the beginning of a suffrage to St Catherine of Alexandria, surrounded by a full ‘scatter’ border of naturalistic flowers and insects, butterflies, and a peacock, modern foliation ‘195’ altered to ‘196’ or vice versa (cropped close at the fore-edge, traces of mounting-tape, some wear including one diagonal crease); the other leaf comprising the beginning of the Mass of the Virgin, the border incorporating three caterpillars, a snail, a butterfly, a bird, and a vase inscribed ‘O MARI[A]’ (minor cockling and thumbing, minor glue stains at the gutter edge). Provenance: (1) From the same parent manuscript as lot 50. (2) These two leaves were purchased from Ursus Rare Books, New York, Catalogue 150: Humanism [1990?], no 108 (frontispiece and ills.) priced at $20,000 for the pair.
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