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Auction archive: Lot number 16

St. John seated on Patmos writing his Gospel, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£3,750
ca. US$5,576
Auction archive: Lot number 16

St. John seated on Patmos writing his Gospel, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,461 - US$7,435
Price realised:
£3,750
ca. US$5,576
Beschreibung:

St. John seated on Patmos writing his Gospel, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum a single leaf, 154mm. by 102mm., full-page miniature of St. John with a liquid gold halo seated on a grassy hillock writing on a scroll, all before a watery landscape with islands topped with medieval towns and a wide open sky, all within an architectural frame on the base of which an eagle stands wings open supporting an open scroll containing a 3-line initial 'I' (opening 'In principio erat ...', John 1:1, from the Gospel Lessons in a Book of Hours) in dull gold supported by two cherubs, and with 3 lines of text in dark brown ink in an elaborate lettre bâtarde, 15 lines in same on verso, in good condition perhaps with some later retouching, loosely laid down on nineteenth-century card

Auction archive: Lot number 16
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

St. John seated on Patmos writing his Gospel, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum a single leaf, 154mm. by 102mm., full-page miniature of St. John with a liquid gold halo seated on a grassy hillock writing on a scroll, all before a watery landscape with islands topped with medieval towns and a wide open sky, all within an architectural frame on the base of which an eagle stands wings open supporting an open scroll containing a 3-line initial 'I' (opening 'In principio erat ...', John 1:1, from the Gospel Lessons in a Book of Hours) in dull gold supported by two cherubs, and with 3 lines of text in dark brown ink in an elaborate lettre bâtarde, 15 lines in same on verso, in good condition perhaps with some later retouching, loosely laid down on nineteenth-century card

Auction archive: Lot number 16
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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