SEVEN ILLUMINATED INITIALS FROM AN ANTIPHONARY, IN LATIN [FRANCE (PARIS), EARLY 16TH CENTURY]

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

ink and bodycolour on vellum

7 cuttings, various sizes from c.110x100mm to c.220x190mm, vellum, stuck to two sheets of blue album paper, each with music in square notation on four-line red staves, rastrum c.25mm, THREE WITH INITIALS INHABITED BY DRAGONS AND ONE WITH A PEACOCK, THE OTHER THREE WITH FLOWERS

Catalogue Note

From a very large fine French Renaissance Choirbook. Some of the dragons resemble the salamander, the personal emblem of King François I.