THE ANNUNCIATION WITH MONKS, NUNS, AND SAINTS, PROBABLY FROM A PRAYERBOOK [FRANCE (PARIS), 16TH CENTURY (C.1510?)]

c.140x93mm, single vellum leaf with full-page miniature depicting kneeling monks with St Stephen, and kneeling nuns with St Francis, the arms (argent, a chevron azure, with three molettes gules, behind which is a crozier), crozier, and perhaps the smaller nun apparently added c.1522(?), the reverse blank except for a partially obscured 18th-century inscription, ‘[Cette] image a 230 [ans d’anti]quite et est du tems de m(adam)e Francoise le jaune a[bbesse] de Soissons’; trimmed to the edges of the painted frame, some flaking of pigments, especially the face of the smaller nun, gentle cockling, but overall in very good condition; framed and glazed

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