Featured Listings in Medieval & Oriental Manuscripts
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of August)
RECTO : Calendar month of August with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with bla...
$350 / ≈ €303
Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases, religious scenes and a figure symbolizing the Danse Macabre consists of the dea...
$125 / ≈ €108
Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty.
Indo/Persian, Mogul Dynasty miniature painting in delicate Opaque watercolors on paper, with Islamic scripts on recto and verso. Miniature about 70 x 150mm. Painted in gi...
$300 / ≈ €259
Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1800-1850
