ST ANNE WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, in an initial S, cutting from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
ST ANNE WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, in an initial S, cutting from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Verona, c.1490s] 125 x 125mm overall. Within initial-staves of lilac-coloured horn-shapes and green leaves, the aged saint stands in a landscape holding the diminutive Virgin and Child on her arm, the red and blue jewel-like stones scattered behind her presumably indicating the Heavenly Jerusalem. On the verso two lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand and a line of music with a four-line stave of red and music of square notation (cut out to edge of black border to gold ground and laid down on vellum, slight abrasion to gold ground and terminal cropped). Framed. The composition is likely to be based on a northern print: for example Israhel van Meckenem (Hollstein, German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700 , xxiv A, 220).
ST ANNE WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, in an initial S, cutting from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
ST ANNE WITH THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, in an initial S, cutting from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Verona, c.1490s] 125 x 125mm overall. Within initial-staves of lilac-coloured horn-shapes and green leaves, the aged saint stands in a landscape holding the diminutive Virgin and Child on her arm, the red and blue jewel-like stones scattered behind her presumably indicating the Heavenly Jerusalem. On the verso two lines written in black ink in a gothic bookhand and a line of music with a four-line stave of red and music of square notation (cut out to edge of black border to gold ground and laid down on vellum, slight abrasion to gold ground and terminal cropped). Framed. The composition is likely to be based on a northern print: for example Israhel van Meckenem (Hollstein, German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400-1700 , xxiv A, 220).
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