![]() ![]() ![]() 80, when still in the collection of Robert Weaver. The parent manuscript is discussed, and the known leaves listed, by Peter Kidd, The McCarthy Collection, III: French Miniatures (London, 2021), no 60, pp.199 202, citing the present leaf on p. Illumination Previously attributed to eastern France, and perhaps Metz, and dated to various periods from c.1280 to c.1330, the style of illumination should in fact be attributed to Paris, c.1300, as François Avril kindly informed us. This leaf both confirms that Acts appeared between Hebrews (the last of the Pauline Epistles) and James (the first of the Catholic Epistles), and that Acts had an historiated initial. 809), and the start of James as far as James 2:4, but a portion of text has been cut out and replaced by a patch of parchment from the following leaf of the same manuscript, containing parts of James 2:10 3:9 and 4:8 5:20. Text: The main text is from Acts 27:40 to the end of Acts, a prologue to James (Stegmüller no. (6) Sotheby s, 10 July 2012, lot 2(b), the initial reproduced in colour in the catalogue bought by: (7) Robert Weaver, London recently deaccessioned. Ege (1888 1951), of Cleveland, broken-up by him, and with his(?) (partially erased) pencil description in the lower margin of the verso. (4) The property of an Italian Private Collector, sold at Parke-Bernet, New York, 30 November 1948, lot 326, where it was still substantially complete and described as having 503 leaves and 86 historiated initials bought by Philip C. (3) The Property of a Gentleman Resident on the Continent, Sotheby s, 7 July 1931, lot 389. François Avril has recently identified both the donor (whose name was not Mirmellus Arnandi) and the Dominican convent his findings will be published in the forthcoming catalogue of the Naito Collection at the Museum for Western Art, Tokyo. (2) When 210 disbound leaves, with 8 historiated initials, were sold at Sotheby s, 11 December 1984, lot 39, Christopher de Hamel read several partially erased inscriptions and deduced that the Bible had been bequeathed in 1450 by Mirmellus Arnandi, lawyer and judge, to an unidentified Dominican convent. ![]() Provenance (1) The parent manuscript was likely written for a Carthusian house (perhaps the Chartreuse de Vauvert, Paris), with the punctus flexus punctuation typical of Cistercian and Carthusian books, and later added Carthusian markings in the margins. Parchment, a single large leaf, c.410×272mm, ruled in plummet for two columns of 50 lines, written in formal gothic bookhand including a top-line cadel of a squirrel, running headers and chapter numbers in red and blue characters, illuminated with a large (16-line) historiated initial, a four-line prologue initial and two three-line chapter initials, each with foliate bar-extensions running the full height of the text, various medieval and later marginal annotations one area of text excised and repaired. 1440, all text is clear and legible, illumination is bright and radiant, beautifully matted and framed, leaf size 5.7x3.9in (145x100mm), miniature size 2.7x1.9in (70x50mm), frame size 10.75x8.88in (273.05x225.43mm). The miniature was likely created in Bruges circa 1440, showing elements of style associated with the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, popular in Bruges between the 1420s and the 1450s. The miniature is bordered on three sides with a decoration of blue and brown acanthus, red flower buds, berries and some gold sporadically throughout. On the verso, there is another, smaller initial "D" also painted in gold. George which is continued on the back (16 lines, brown ink). Beneath the miniature, the illuminated initial is also painted in gold. The king's daughter can be found in the background kneeling (presumably) in prayer. George sits atop his horse wielding a sword as the dragon sits breathing fire underneath him. George riding on horseback and slaying a dragon to rescue the king's daughter is depicted in this miniature. ILLUMINATED LEAF FROM BOOK OF HOURS WITH MINIATURE OF ST. ![]()
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