A collection of leaves and cuttings from illuminated manuscripts, on vellum and paper, and a devotional picture on canvas [Italy, c.1300-nineteenth century]

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

Paper and Vellum

7 leaves or cuttings: (a) two cuttings from a choirbook on vellum, 142mm. by 88mm. and 122mm. by 105mm., with initials enclosing portraits of standing saints, remains of text with music on a 4-line red stave, rastrum: 20mm., rubbed with losses to figure and initial, one initial retouched, northern Italy (perhaps Bologna), c.1300; (b) cutting from another choirbook on vellum, 150mm. by 170mm., with a large initial ‘S’ enclosing the Stoning of St. Stephen, back with text with music on 4-line red staves, rastrum: 44mm., scuffed with some pigment losses, large areas of burnished gold missing, northern Italy (Bologna), c.1400; (c) two leaves with watercolours showing scenes of Genesis with the Creation of the Sun, Moon and Stars and the Creation of the Animals, from an album on paper, each 198mm. by 143mm., with Italian titles and numbered as ‘7’ and ‘8’, versos with Italian inscriptions, in fair condition, Italy, sixteenth century; (d) leaf with a miniature of the Annunciation on vellum, 188mm. by 144mm., recto blank, somewhat rubbed, Italy, seventeenth century; plus (e) a devotional picture of the Virgin and Child on canvas, 247mm. by 200mm., cracked and with paint losses, Italy, nineteenth century

Catalogue Note

Another cutting most probably from the same choirbook as item (a) was offered in Maggs, Cat.1340, no.5.