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Bearded saint holding a book, cutting from an illuminated Psalter, on vellum [Germany (Franconia, probably Würzburg), c.1245-50]
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Vellum
cutting, 85mm. by 67mm., historiated initial ‘D’ in blue with white detailing, enclosing the three-quarter-length figure of a bearded saint with a red halo, dressed in blue with a white mantle, the left hand raised, the right hand holding a black book, on a burnished gold ground, the outer field with silver (now oxidised), within an illusionistic green frame with white inset, ruling of 11 lines visible through leaf, laid down on card, small losses from gold and silver, slightly rubbed in places, large spot of black paint on illusionistic frame, else in good condition, with early twentieth-century pencil inscriptions on mount of ‘1920’ (presumably the date of last framing, and ‘no. 1’ (presumably its sequence in a group), other pencil notes in Dutch on card from last framing with date 14 January 1948
Catalogue Note
From the same manuscript as the preceding lot.