Trial by Combat, miniature on a leaf [Europe, 19th century]

single leaf, c.264x165mm, vellum, with a miniature, cockled and stained, reverse blank

This miniature is a precise copy of folio 22 in a manuscript entitled Cérémonies et ordonnances à gage de bataille (Paris, BnF, fr.2258; see F. Avril and N. Reynaud, Manuscrits à Peintures en France, 1993, pp.44-5). The manuscript was made in Paris around 1460-65 for François II, Duke of Brittany, and richly decorated by the Master of Jean Rolin.