Illuminated manuscript.- Single leaf from a Book of Hours with young male and female saints in the initials, in the hand of the Renaissance master-scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito manuscript in Latin, on parchment, single leaf with a historiated initial on each side, the first a 'D' (opening "Deus in[adiu]torium [meum] ...", versicle for None in the Hours of the Cross) in gilt edged red, enclosing a bust of a young male saint with long flowing blond hair and a hairline thin gold halo, the whole initial on purple grounds, the second another 'D' (opening "Deus in adiutorium meum ...", versicle for Vespers in the Hours of the Cross) in same enclosing a young female saint with a headscarf and a liquid gold halo, all on green grounds with tiny flowers overlaid in liquid gold, one gilt-edged yellow initial on red grounds with similar gilt flowers in its upper and lower compartments, rubrics in liquid gold or blue ornamental capitals, two one-line simple blue initials, single column of 12 lines of the sublime humanist script of Bartolomeo Sanvito (from "...ficatus V. Adoramus te christe &c." at end of Sext, to "Sicut erat Alleluia. Hymnus ..."in Vespers), signs of offset from other facing pages when in parent volume (with a few characters from 4 lines of text damaged, and text in reverse offset over surface of second initial), small spots and stains, else in good and fresh condition, approximately 118 x 80mm. (written space: 67 x 47mm.), framed and glazed with glass on both side, [Italy (Rome)], [early 1480s].
Illuminated manuscript.- Single leaf from a Book of Hours with young male and female saints in the initials, in the hand of the Renaissance master-scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito manuscript in Latin, on parchment, single leaf with a historiated initial on each side, the first a 'D' (opening "Deus in[adiu]torium [meum] ...", versicle for None in the Hours of the Cross) in gilt edged red, enclosing a bust of a young male saint with long flowing blond hair and a hairline thin gold halo, the whole initial on purple grounds, the second another 'D' (opening "Deus in adiutorium meum ...", versicle for Vespers in the Hours of the Cross) in same enclosing a young female saint with a headscarf and a liquid gold halo, all on green grounds with tiny flowers overlaid in liquid gold, one gilt-edged yellow initial on red grounds with similar gilt flowers in its upper and lower compartments, rubrics in liquid gold or blue ornamental capitals, two one-line simple blue initials, single column of 12 lines of the sublime humanist script of Bartolomeo Sanvito (from "...ficatus V. Adoramus te christe &c." at end of Sext, to "Sicut erat Alleluia. Hymnus ..."in Vespers), signs of offset from other facing pages when in parent volume (with a few characters from 4 lines of text damaged, and text in reverse offset over surface of second initial), small spots and stains, else in good and fresh condition, approximately 118 x 80mm. (written space: 67 x 47mm.), framed and glazed with glass on both side, [Italy (Rome)], [early 1480s].
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