Seated man with his hand to his face, historiated initial on a leaf from an early and lavishly illuminated Psalter-Hours, in Latin [northern France?, c.1250]

single leaf, c.178x133mm, vellum, 20 lines, c.153x86mm, consisting of Psalms 102:22–103:18 (the immediately preceding leaf is in the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo), Ps.103 with a LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL, some LINE-FILLERS WITH ANIMALS, foliated ‘149’, the edges cropped, very slightly affecting one line-filler

 



 

From the same manuscript as the previous two lots.