fragment of a manuscript leaf on vellum, large initial in colours on a green background, with a gilt border, depicting a group of monks or friars, in brown habits, and acolytes, in white surplices, stanidng before an altar, with an open choirbook on a lectern, in a room with panelled walls and a gilt ceiling, scuffed, part of 4 lines of Latin text visible on verso, framed and glazed, plastic strip on back with provenance note, c. 130 x 135 mm., ? Milan, fifteenth-century. *** Provenance: 'Milanese miniature E 16 C Dyson Perrins Coll / C IV 88B' . C. Dyson Perrins (1864-1958, philanthropist and manuscript collector). This miniature perhaps from the album of Italian miniatures, sold by Sotheby's on 29th November 1960, lot 151, bought and subsequently dispersed by Alan Thomas.
fragment of a manuscript leaf on vellum, large initial in colours on a green background, with a gilt border, depicting a group of monks or friars, in brown habits, and acolytes, in white surplices, stanidng before an altar, with an open choirbook on a lectern, in a room with panelled walls and a gilt ceiling, scuffed, part of 4 lines of Latin text visible on verso, framed and glazed, plastic strip on back with provenance note, c. 130 x 135 mm., ? Milan, fifteenth-century. *** Provenance: 'Milanese miniature E 16 C Dyson Perrins Coll / C IV 88B' . C. Dyson Perrins (1864-1958, philanthropist and manuscript collector). This miniature perhaps from the album of Italian miniatures, sold by Sotheby's on 29th November 1960, lot 151, bought and subsequently dispersed by Alan Thomas.
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