Lot 9
  • 9

A woman’s head in profile, and a Man chopping a tree with an axe, historiated initial and marginal figure on a leaf from the Ghistelles Hours, in Latin [Flanders (Bruges?), c.1300]

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description

  • bodycolour on vellum
single leaf, c.120x80mm, vellum, 11 lines, c.60x47mm, with a HISTORIATED INITIAL, apparently the final leaf of the Office of the Dead, slight rubbing of gold, small pigment losses, and slight darkening of the extremities

 

Catalogue Note

From the same manuscript as the previous and following lots.