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Auction archive: Lot number 519

CHRIST ENTHRONED, historiated initial 'H' cut from an illuminated choirbook on vellum [Spain, Toledo, mid 16th-century]

Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,097 - US$7,646
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 519

CHRIST ENTHRONED, historiated initial 'H' cut from an illuminated choirbook on vellum [Spain, Toledo, mid 16th-century]

Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,097 - US$7,646
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

CHRIST ENTHRONED, historiated initial 'H' cut from an illuminated choirbook on vellum [Spain, Toledo, mid 16th-century] An imposing and expressive miniature from what would have been a monumental Spanish Antiphonal illuminated in Toledo within the circle of Juan Correa de Vivar 265 x 250mm. Reverse with two lines of text and music on a five-line stave, with the antiphon for the Feast of the Common of the Apostles '[maior]em charita[tem nem]o habet ut [...]' (some retouching to the red in the frame of the initial, a few creases). Framed.

Auction archive: Lot number 519
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

CHRIST ENTHRONED, historiated initial 'H' cut from an illuminated choirbook on vellum [Spain, Toledo, mid 16th-century] An imposing and expressive miniature from what would have been a monumental Spanish Antiphonal illuminated in Toledo within the circle of Juan Correa de Vivar 265 x 250mm. Reverse with two lines of text and music on a five-line stave, with the antiphon for the Feast of the Common of the Apostles '[maior]em charita[tem nem]o habet ut [...]' (some retouching to the red in the frame of the initial, a few creases). Framed.

Auction archive: Lot number 519
Auction:
Datum:
10 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
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