Lotto 4501* - A212 Libri - mercoledì, 26. marzo 2025, 13h30
HORAE B.M.V. -
Flemish Book of Hours. Latin manuscript on vellum. With 6 large miniatures in wide borders with flowers, fruits and acanthus tendrils, each with a similarly designed page frame around a multiline initial, as well as 15 figurative initials with head and foot borders of the same type, and numerous small initials and line fillers, all in gold and colours.
Flanders (Bruges), about 1470. 12.7 × 9 cm. [144] leaves with later foliation in pencil. Leaf size 12.2 × 8.5 cm, scripture 7.5 × 5.2 cm. 17 lines. Gothic bastarda. Red marocco binding circa 1800 with gilt-stamped double spine label, classical gilt to spine, cover fillets, gilt inner edges, marbled endpapers and gilt edges (slightly rubbed).
Complete, neatly laid out book of hours with the following large miniatures: Leaf 13v: Christ on the cross. - Leaf 20v: Pentecost. - Leaf 37v: Annunciation of Mary. - Leaf 87v: Mass of St Gregory. - Leaf 95v: King David in prayer. - Leaf 112v: Jesus raising the dead (in a medieval churchyard). The very finely painted initial miniatures (approx. 2.5 × 3.5 cm) with city and landscape backdrops show Mary with the Child, Annunciation of Mary, Birth of Christ, Annunciation to the Shepherds, Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Bethlehem Infanticide, Flight into Egypt, John the Baptist with the Lamb of God, Peter and Paul, Martyrdom of St Sebastian, St Christopher carrying Jesus, St Catherine, St Barbara, Lamentation of Christ. - First calendar pages with slight finger marks, the double pages with the large miniatures and opposing initials somewhat worn, first two miniatures trimmed at the head up to the border and with minor rubbing in the colour application, otherwise fresh. - Provenance: Ownership note (?) ‘Eberhardus Episcopus Spirensis et praepositus Weissenburgensis’ (Eberhard von Dienheim, Bishop of Speyer from 1581) written on parchment on the verso of the flyleaf. - Sotheby's, 16 June 1937, lot 577 - Swiss private ownership.
CHF 20 000 / 30 000 | (€ 20 620 / 30 930)
Venduto per CHF 18 750 (incl. premio)