Pope Gregory IX receiving his Decretals from Raymond of Pennafort, pointing to the same codex, and a congregation worshipping in church, three miniatures on cuttings from an illuminated Decretals of Gregory IX, manuscript on vellum [Northern Italy (Bologna), first two decades of the fourteenth century] three cuttings together, 200mm. by 97mm., showing (i) Gregory IX as a bearded bishop being presented with the Decretals by Raymond of Pennafort (whom he had commanded in 1230 to produce the work), all before the papal court and a burnished gold background; (ii) Gregory IX seated and pointing to the same volume, before a blue background heightened with white penwork; (iii) the congregation of a church kneeling before the altar as tonsured monks sing from a choirbook on a raised lectern and another monk lifts up the host; laid down on thin board together, upper and lower borders of board painted to unite all three cuttings, some small scuffs in places, and small areas of edges of miniatures lost, else good and presentable condition, nineteenth-century chalk “525” and pen “24v” and “2, 6/6/-” on reverse of board, framed
Pope Gregory IX receiving his Decretals from Raymond of Pennafort, pointing to the same codex, and a congregation worshipping in church, three miniatures on cuttings from an illuminated Decretals of Gregory IX, manuscript on vellum [Northern Italy (Bologna), first two decades of the fourteenth century] three cuttings together, 200mm. by 97mm., showing (i) Gregory IX as a bearded bishop being presented with the Decretals by Raymond of Pennafort (whom he had commanded in 1230 to produce the work), all before the papal court and a burnished gold background; (ii) Gregory IX seated and pointing to the same volume, before a blue background heightened with white penwork; (iii) the congregation of a church kneeling before the altar as tonsured monks sing from a choirbook on a raised lectern and another monk lifts up the host; laid down on thin board together, upper and lower borders of board painted to unite all three cuttings, some small scuffs in places, and small areas of edges of miniatures lost, else good and presentable condition, nineteenth-century chalk “525” and pen “24v” and “2, 6/6/-” on reverse of board, framed
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