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Contains 27 Results:

French Book of Hours, 15th century

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Size: 6.25" x 5.25"Description: Original French Manuscript. Probably Diocese of Paris, France.Dealer description: Leaf from Book of Hours. France, c. 1450. 13 lines.

Dates: 15th century

Horae leaf: Use of Sarum, 1475

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Size: 7.5" x 5.25"Description: Double leaf. Use of SarumDealer description: Double-leaf from Book of Hours (use of Sarum). C. 1475. 23 lines.

Dates: 1475

Illuminated miniature of the Nativity, 1480-1490

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents Size: 203mm x 247mmDescription: Rouen artist. Illuminated miniature of the Nativity. France.Dealer description: Large rectangular miniature of the Navtivity (117x73mm), showing Mary and Joseph raising their hands and looking down at the Holy Child who lies on the Virgin's cloak, the scene set in an open stable which is partially covered by a red and gold tapestry screen; four shepherds peer in over the fence, landscape background....
Dates: 1480-1490

Bruges artist, 1470

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents Size: 227mm x 153mmDescription: Illuminated miniature of the Betrayal of Christ. Bruges, Flanders.Dealer description: Historiated initial showing Christ being betrayed by Judas in front of a crowd of soldiers, in the foreground Malchus is having his ear cut off by Peter. The initial painted in blue with white tracery in a gold frame. Border on three sides composed of blue and green acanthus, flowers and fruit and other coloured...
Dates: 1470

Hours of the Virgin, 15th century

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Size: 5.5" x 4.5"Description: Use of Sarum in Latin. England.Dealer description: Double leaf from Book of Hours (use of Sarum) England, c. 1450.

Dates: 15th century

French illuminator, 1430-1450

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents Size: 202mm x 146mmDescription: Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours. Northwestern France.Dealer description: On each side of the leaf a wide ornamental border composed of gold oak leaves and pink and blue flowers on hair-line stems which radiate from a bar border of pink and burnished gold. 3 two-line initials in pink and blue on burnished gold grounds and 5 one-line initials on pink and blue grounds, two line-fillers. 15 lines of...
Dates: 1430-1450

Italian illuminator, 1450

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents Size: 280mm x 195mmDescription: Illuminated bifolium from a Book of Hours. Northeastern Italy, c. 1450.Dealer description: Beautiful 6-line illuminated initial 'S' painted on a burnished gold ground in pink, green and orange acanthus, with full length marginal extension of lush blue, pink and orange acanthus on a gold ground, gold bezants and a long-legged bird drawn in two colours in lower margin; red and blue initials. 18 lines of...
Dates: 1450

Leaf from Book of Hours, 1452

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents Size: 5.5" x 4"Description: Flemish.Dealer description: Handwritten provenance history: "310 pages. 6 illuminated (1 w/miniatures). Floriated borders, Burnished gold paint. Lapis Lazure Blue paint. From the Duc de Lilchtenstein's Library. 1800's - sold at auction to an Austrian library (state operated) 1800's - sold to a p'vt collector (European) 1900's (incomplete) - sold to an Antique Bookdealer 1964 (incomplete) -...
Dates: 1452

Hours of the Virgin, 15th century

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Size: 5.75" x 4.25"Description: Calendar page. Miniature painting, Northern France; illuminated manuscript.Dealer description: Leaf from Book of Hours. N. France, c. 1480-1500. 15 lines.

Dates: 15th century

Manuscript Brevary in Latin (of St. Victor), 15th century

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Size: 6.75" x 4.75"Description: Breviary. Flemish. MS in Latin of St. Victor.Dealer description: Leaf from Flemish Breviary c. 1450-70. 18 lines.

Dates: 15th century