cut from an Eastern Christian illuminated manuscript, on paper [probably Coptic, perhaps sixteenth century] Two leaves with: (a) large miniature composed as an architectural columned building, enclosing two dark-skinned bearded figures, who point at each other (the one on the left also dipping his fingers into a container), both supported by human heads, and the columns supported by white oxen and other heads (one human, and 3 gold maned lions), four birds atop the structure along with lappetted architectural pieces (2 with crosses at their apex), all arranged around a central roundel with a quadruped composite animal inside (a cat-like head but long arching neck, a camel-like hump, a large lappet rising above its shoulder and a tail ending in a long beaked bird’s head), some flaking and trimmed to edges of miniature with slight losses, overall good, 213 by 130mm; (b) large miniature with a figure of an Apostle seated cross legged in pink robes and with a large halo between two yellow pillars with human heads at their tops, 2 birds at his feet, and 8 others above him, many of which dip their beaks into pots or peck at human heads, another Apostle figure at the top of the structure, paint flaked from much of faces and some of birds, but with full borders, 235 by 155mm; accompanied by handwritten nineteenth- or early twentieth-century labels in Norwegian and typed labels with “Nr 15” and “Nr 12” adhered to blank reverses
cut from an Eastern Christian illuminated manuscript, on paper [probably Coptic, perhaps sixteenth century] Two leaves with: (a) large miniature composed as an architectural columned building, enclosing two dark-skinned bearded figures, who point at each other (the one on the left also dipping his fingers into a container), both supported by human heads, and the columns supported by white oxen and other heads (one human, and 3 gold maned lions), four birds atop the structure along with lappetted architectural pieces (2 with crosses at their apex), all arranged around a central roundel with a quadruped composite animal inside (a cat-like head but long arching neck, a camel-like hump, a large lappet rising above its shoulder and a tail ending in a long beaked bird’s head), some flaking and trimmed to edges of miniature with slight losses, overall good, 213 by 130mm; (b) large miniature with a figure of an Apostle seated cross legged in pink robes and with a large halo between two yellow pillars with human heads at their tops, 2 birds at his feet, and 8 others above him, many of which dip their beaks into pots or peck at human heads, another Apostle figure at the top of the structure, paint flaked from much of faces and some of birds, but with full borders, 235 by 155mm; accompanied by handwritten nineteenth- or early twentieth-century labels in Norwegian and typed labels with “Nr 15” and “Nr 12” adhered to blank reverses
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