A Dominican kneeling before Christ as the Man of Sorrows, surrounded by the Instruments of the Passion, historiated initial on a leaf from a vast Ferial Psalter, in Latin [France (probably Rouen), c.1490]

single leaf, c.640x440mm, vellum, with a historiated initial `E’ and a partial floral border including the letters ‘V’, ‘F’ and ‘E’ joined by a tasselled cord, 2 columns, 27 lines (c.510×290mm), one-line titulus in gold, illuminated two-line initials and line-fillers, several including the symbols of St James, the scallop-shell (coquille St-Jacques) and pilgrim’s staff, Pss.38:9–39:13, old foliation ‘34’, slightly darkened around the edges

 

From the same manuscript as the previous lot.