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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT Two leaves from an Antiphoner, each with a large historiated initial [a Martyr Saint, and the Virgin Mary], [Lombardy, late 15th] (2) image 1
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT Two leaves from an Antiphoner, each with a large historiated initial [a Martyr Saint, and the Virgin Mary], [Lombardy, late 15th] (2) image 2
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT Two leaves from an Antiphoner, each with a large historiated initial [a Martyr Saint, and the Virgin Mary], [Lombardy, late 15th] (2) image 3
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
Two leaves from an Antiphoner, each with a large historiated initial [a Martyr Saint, and the Virgin Mary]

Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs, including the Property of the late Michael Silverman
22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT

Two leaves from an Antiphoner, each with a large historiated initial [a Martyr Saint, and the Virgin Mary], on vellum, the initials (90 x 85mm., and 85 x 75mm.) painted in bright colours against blue skies, and burnished gold, leafy extensions into margins with burnished gold bezants and radiating penwork, on leaves with 7 lines of text in a rounded gothic hand and of music on a 4-line red stave, rubrics in red, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 372 x 270mm., [Lombardy, perhaps Cremona, late fifteenth century] (2)

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Historiated initials: half-length young male martyr saint holding a book and palm leaf, within a large initial 'I' ("Iste sanctis..", part of the Common of Martyrs); half-length figure of the Virgin with hands folded across her breast, within a large initial 'H' ("Hodie nata est...", from the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin).

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