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Auction archive: Lot number 11

ST. AGNES, historiated initial "D", on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM

Auction 29.06.1994
29 Jun 1994
Estimate
£2,500 - £3,500
ca. US$3,812 - US$5,337
Price realised:
£6,670
ca. US$10,172
Auction archive: Lot number 11

ST. AGNES, historiated initial "D", on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM

Auction 29.06.1994
29 Jun 1994
Estimate
£2,500 - £3,500
ca. US$3,812 - US$5,337
Price realised:
£6,670
ca. US$10,172
Beschreibung:

ST. AGNES, historiated initial "D", on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM [Florence, circle of Lorenzo Monaco circa 1400] Leaf 402x325mm (trimmed at head), initial 92x91mm, pink orange and blue with yellow border and burnished gold decoration on blue ground, with coloured foliate extension. The saint in orange gown, holding and stroking a lamb, on blue ground. Text in a brown gothic textura, rubrics in red, calligraphic large initial "P", blue with red penwork flourishing. Verso of a leaf with 7 lines of music in square notation on red four-line staves, also 7 lines on recto, with 3 large calligraphic initials. The miniature illustrates the Response for the feast of the birth of St.Agnes, "Diem festum sacratissimae vir" Possibly cut from an antiphonal for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence.

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jun 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

ST. AGNES, historiated initial "D", on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM [Florence, circle of Lorenzo Monaco circa 1400] Leaf 402x325mm (trimmed at head), initial 92x91mm, pink orange and blue with yellow border and burnished gold decoration on blue ground, with coloured foliate extension. The saint in orange gown, holding and stroking a lamb, on blue ground. Text in a brown gothic textura, rubrics in red, calligraphic large initial "P", blue with red penwork flourishing. Verso of a leaf with 7 lines of music in square notation on red four-line staves, also 7 lines on recto, with 3 large calligraphic initials. The miniature illustrates the Response for the feast of the birth of St.Agnes, "Diem festum sacratissimae vir" Possibly cut from an antiphonal for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence.

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jun 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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