[LIGHTING] Miniature. The Three Dead and... - Lot 18 - Ader

[LIGHTING] Miniature. The Three Dead and the Three Alive, with a Monk Illuminated miniature leaf from a Book of Hours [Office of the Dead] Tempera, gouache and burnished gold Italy, Tuscany (Florence), c. 1480 Mariano del Buono di Jacopo or his workshop. Dimensions: leaflet (H. 142 x L. 102 mm); miniature (55 x 80 mm) This leaflet illustrated a Book of Hours, introducing the Office of the Dead . The manuscript was certainly made for a religious congregation: a monk witnessing the scene of the three dead and the three living, dressed in grey, can be recognised. In the border, a bird and a rabbit, and in the lower border a four-lobed medallion in which a skull is inscribed, as is often found in Italian Books of Hours to illustrate the Office of the Dead. The artist of this leaf is to be compared with the manuscripts painted by Mariano del Buono di Jacopo (1433-1504) with a border decoration that seems to be influenced by Ricciardo di Nanni. Mariano del Buono also collaborated with Ricciardo di Nanni in a manuscript containing Livio's works (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Lat., 15731-15733). The border combining double gilt fillets, bianchi girari and bestiary elements is by the same hand that paints the small Book of Hours kept in London, Victoria and Albert Museum (Reid 63 / MS L/1902/1706). Also noteworthy is the similar treatment of the trees and a common palette. Text: In Latin, Italian humanistic writing. Text on the reverse, in brown ink and pale red rubric: "[...] Gloria tibi dom... Magnificat anima mea deum. Notandum quod prima antifana [sic] de laudibus dicitur ad primam. Secunda ad tertias. Tertia ad sestam. Quinta ad nonam ...". Comparisons : London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, c. 1480, Italy (Tuscany or Umbria). See R. Watson, Victoria and Albert Museum. Western Illuminated Manuscripts, vol. I, London, 2011, cat. no. 117, pp. 624-627: "Despite