Leaf from the celebrated Beauvais Missal, with a single animal-headed drollery, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens), early fourteenth century (probably c. 1310)] Single leaf, with double column of 21 lines of a high grade of early gothic bookhand, capitals touched in yellow wash or enclosing quatrefoil penwork tiles, pale red rubrics, ten 2-line initials in blue or dark pink, heightened with white penwork and enclosing foliage or geometric knots in same, with circles of gold at their corners and on contrasting coloured grounds, coloured foliate extensions into margins with more small circles of gold mounted in their shoots, these terminating in leaves, one of these on the recto with its extensions almost the entire page in height, and another enclosing an animal-masked drollery creature tightly curled within the body of the initial and looking back over his shoulder at the adjacent text, apparent earlier folio no. '12' in pencil in upper outer corner and slight offset on verso from decoration of adjacent leaf in original volume, else fresh and bright condition, 288 by 198mm. For main discussion of the provenance see previous lot. This leaf was acquired by Roger Martin at Kiefer Buch-und Kunstauktionenhaus, 7 February 2017, lot 98.
Leaf from the celebrated Beauvais Missal, with a single animal-headed drollery, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens), early fourteenth century (probably c. 1310)] Single leaf, with double column of 21 lines of a high grade of early gothic bookhand, capitals touched in yellow wash or enclosing quatrefoil penwork tiles, pale red rubrics, ten 2-line initials in blue or dark pink, heightened with white penwork and enclosing foliage or geometric knots in same, with circles of gold at their corners and on contrasting coloured grounds, coloured foliate extensions into margins with more small circles of gold mounted in their shoots, these terminating in leaves, one of these on the recto with its extensions almost the entire page in height, and another enclosing an animal-masked drollery creature tightly curled within the body of the initial and looking back over his shoulder at the adjacent text, apparent earlier folio no. '12' in pencil in upper outer corner and slight offset on verso from decoration of adjacent leaf in original volume, else fresh and bright condition, 288 by 198mm. For main discussion of the provenance see previous lot. This leaf was acquired by Roger Martin at Kiefer Buch-und Kunstauktionenhaus, 7 February 2017, lot 98.
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