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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: one 2-line illuminated initial showing a bird in fine detail in liquid gold on colored ground, seven 1-line initials and line-fillers in same.RECTO: Seven 1-line i...
Date: France, c. 1520
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: one 2-line illuminated initial in liquid gold on colored ground, seven 1-line initials and line-fillers in same.RECTO: eight 1-line initials in liquid gold on colo...
Date: France, 1520-1540
Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late Gothic hand.
RECTO: One 1-line initial S in burnished gold on a red and blue ground and one line filler in same.Verso 17 lines of text two initials in red and several filled in with y...
Date: France/Flanders, c.1500
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Date: France, ca.1530
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same...
Date: France, ca. 1530
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same.VERSO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines i...
Date: France, 1520-1550
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter with King David.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruli...
Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
Miniature of The Crucifixion of Christ.
Page fragment from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Cruxifiction with Saint Mary and Mary Magdalene in prayer in front of Jesus hung on the cross. This miniature c...
Date: Paris, 1492 - 1494
Miniature of Suffrages to the Saints.
A fantastic miniature (70 x 50 mm.) in an arched compartment showing the Suffrages to the Saints. Depiction of the (50) martyrs being burnt before King''s orders. The sty...
Date: France, Bretagne or Normandy, c. 1480
![The Poisoned cup of Saint John. [from the Book of Hours in the Suffrages to the Saints].](/uploads/cache/25632-500x500.jpg)
The Poisoned cup of Saint John. [from the Book of Hours in the Suffrages to the Saints].
Painted scene of the Poisoned cup of Saint John. The biblical story goes that the Emperor Diocletian offered St. John a cup of poisoned wine. He survived because he bless...
Date: France, ca.1300