Lot n° 23
Estimation :
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EUR
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: 896EUR
[LIGHTING] Leaflet, from a large missal inscribed... - Lot 23 - Ader
[LIGHTING] Leaflet, from a large missal inscribed
France, Paris, circa 1500.
Ornamented initials, cadenced initials, music notated square on staves of 4 lines, ornamented end lines.
Dimensions : H. 823 x W. 573 mmThis
large folio is reminiscent of the aesthetics and craftsmanship of the manuscripts made for Anne of Brittany and Charles VIII then Louis XII, notably a dismembered antiphonary in the 19th c. of which fragments are kept at the Lilly Library in Bloomington, USA (Ricketts 10) or at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris (Mn. Masson 141
).
See Les Enluminures, Catalogue 3,1994, no. 28; C. de Hamel, Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library, Bloomington, 2010, no. 83, pp. 182-83.
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