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Jacob and Esau offering a lamb to their father Isaac, a historiated initial on a leaf from the Chudleigh Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [north-eastern France (perhaps Arras), c.1220-30]
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
single leaf, 284mm. by 193mm., with a 9-line historiated initial ‘O’ in light pink and blue with white penwork decoration on contrasting grounds, enclosing Jacob and Esau as young men offering a lamb to their aged father Isaac, while he blesses it (following Genesis 27 which includes the same figures as the Book of Malachi), double column, 54 lines in a gothic bookhand, written space 185mm. by 120mm., capitals stroked in red, rubrics in red, running headers and chapter numbers alternately in red and blue, 2-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, one decorated initial in light pink and blue with white penwork decoration with foliate extensions, on contrasting grounds, filled with burnished gold decorated with light pink, blue and orange acanthus including a devil thrusting a spear into a dragon’s head, with wide margins, partly stained, else in excellent condition
Catalogue Note
From the same manuscript as the previous lot.