The Annunciation, and The Assumption of the Virgin, two full-page miniatures from an illuminated manuscript prayerbook on vellum

2 single leaves, (a) a leaf, 140 mm. by 95 mm., with a miniature, 131 mm. by 87 mm., showing the Virgin Mary kneeling at her prayers in a curtained-off alcove in a classical building, a table beside her with books and a jug, a carpet draped over the furniture behind her, Gabriel in the centre holding out a flower (a very unusual detail), the Holy Dove hovering above the Virgin's head, a glimpse of a landscape through the arch behind, God watching from the sky, all within a round-topped composition echoing the arch of the roof, the upper corners infilled with leafy decoration in camaieu d'or, all painted in colours and liquid gold, slightly faded; and (b) a leaf, 142 mm. by 98 mm., with a miniature, 132 mm. by 88 mm., showing the Virgin being lifted up towards Heaven by two angels, the twelve apostles below gathered in prayer around her tomb, Saint Peter in the foreground in a splendid golden cope, kneeling on an oriental carpet draped over the steps of the tomb and waving a censer, the Holy Dove hovering above the Virgin's head, the Father and Son together in the skies waiting with a royal crown in the company of many putti including two bands of angelic musicians, all set in and above a landscape with a fine gothic castle behind among hills; both within later borders of floral printed paper (perhaps English, seventeenth century), laid down on wood, both in wooden frames

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From  the same set as the previous lot.  From the collections of General Mead (his catalogue, 1851, no. 299), Frederick Locker Lampson (1821-1895), bought in 1867, (his sale, Christie's, 11 May 1923, lot 67), and R. M. W. Walker (his sale, Christie's, 26 July 1945, lot 131), bought then by Eric Korner.

The miniatures are by the same artist as those of the previous lot, probably Hans Springinklee (fl. 1512- c.1524), working in the immediate circle and probably household of Albrecht Dürer.  They may be from the Prayerbook of Georg Dummen.  The composition of the Annunciation here is based fairly closely on Dürer's woodcut Life of the Virgin (Bartsch 83), c.1503, with further intimate and domestic details added, as in Dürer's engraving Jerome in his Study (Bartsch 60), 1514.  Some details of the second miniature derive from Dürer's engraved Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin (Bartsch 94), 1510, but in reverse, which it might be if taken from Dürer's drawing rather than the print, and the landscape, with a spectacular Alpine castle, closely recalls Dürer's watercolours from his trip to Italy in 1494-5.