Three miniatures from a richly decorated Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [central France (probably Lyons), c.1480-90] three leaves, each 144mm. by 100mm., with three-quarter miniatures of (a) the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the angel with a banderole appearing to a group of male and female shepherds and their flock, (b) the Coronation of the Virgin by God wearing a three-tiered crown, within a soft shaded green and pink interior, a medieval walled city visible through the window, (c) the Deposition of Christ, with followers laying his mutilated and blood-stained corpse on a shroud within a gothic interior, all above simple 2-line coloured initials enclosing sprays of foliage, and within full borders of rows of realistic sprigs of foliage and flowers growing from grassy tussocks, and enclosing 22 realistic birds (one of which fights with a snail, and another which eyes a snail cautiously), 3 pensive looking owls and 3 snails, all on gold grounds, 14 lines on verso with decorated border panels with similar foliage and birds, some scuffing, else in good and presentable condition
Three miniatures from a richly decorated Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [central France (probably Lyons), c.1480-90] three leaves, each 144mm. by 100mm., with three-quarter miniatures of (a) the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the angel with a banderole appearing to a group of male and female shepherds and their flock, (b) the Coronation of the Virgin by God wearing a three-tiered crown, within a soft shaded green and pink interior, a medieval walled city visible through the window, (c) the Deposition of Christ, with followers laying his mutilated and blood-stained corpse on a shroud within a gothic interior, all above simple 2-line coloured initials enclosing sprays of foliage, and within full borders of rows of realistic sprigs of foliage and flowers growing from grassy tussocks, and enclosing 22 realistic birds (one of which fights with a snail, and another which eyes a snail cautiously), 3 pensive looking owls and 3 snails, all on gold grounds, 14 lines on verso with decorated border panels with similar foliage and birds, some scuffing, else in good and presentable condition
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