Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

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Lot 35
  • 35

Noted Office of the Dead, Use of Rome, in Latin [Italy, late 15th or early 16th century]

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • ink and pigment on vellum
c.320x245, vellum, ii+40+i, COMPLETE, collation i-v8, but the outermost bifolium of quire iii reversed, 2 LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS, each with a full border incorporating heraldic arms (gules, a lion rampant argent, a chief or), very rubbed, penwork initials throughout, bound in modern plain vellum

Catalogue Note

Text and Illumination

‘Requiem eternam’, illustrated by a funeral service (f.1r), ‘Circumdederunt me’, illustrated by a cadaver with a halo sitting on a tomb (f.9r).