- 33
St Stephen surrounded by other Saints, miniature on a leaf from the Courtanvaux-Elmhirst Hours, in Latin [France (perhaps Châlons-en-Champagne), c.1480s]
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- bodycolour on vellum
single leaf, c.144x97mm, vellum, with a miniature for the Litany, 14 lines, c.65x52mm, folio 83 in the parent manuscript, small pigment losses
Catalogue Note
The unusual emphasis given to St Stephen in this group may be because he was the patron saint of the cathedral of Châlons-en-Champagne.
From the same manuscript as the previous two and the following lots.