Two cuttings with historiated initials from a Gradual, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern Germany, Bohemia or perhaps Hungary, c. 1500] Two nearly square cuttings, each with a large initial: (i) initial 'P'(opening "P[uer natus est nobis et filius et filius datus] est nobis cuius ...", the introit for the Mass of Christmas day) in burnished gold with foliate designs laid over in yellow paint, enclosing the Virgin in the bower, alone and kneeling before the Christ Child, all superimposed onto a realistic red and brown frame edged with liquid gold, with sprays of realistic coloured foliage on hairline gold stems and with large gold bezants in margin, remains of 3 lines of text with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 21mm.), slight scuffing to gold in places, else good condition, 147 by 135mm.; (ii) initial 'S' (in error for 'M', opening "[M]e expec[tave]runt p[eccatores ut] perderent me testim[onia] ...", an introit for the feast of virgin-martyrs) in red acanthus leaves with details picked out in white, enclosing a young woman with long hair and a decorated headdress (but no halo) in a walled flower garden with a lamb and an open book, all on brightly burnished gold grounds with angular extensions to the corners (the gold spaces within the corners of the initial decorated with delicately painted red scrolls), red rubrics on reverse, 5 lines of text in a notably spiky hand with nearly every minim ending in a spiked foot and further spikes added to lefthand side of some ascenders, with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 19 or 20mm.), slight damage to animal's face in initial, one small original flaw in parchment, else good condition, 163 by 164mm.; both attached to card mounts The realistic frame and the decorations overlaid on the gold leaf here point towards southern Germany. However, the fluttering hairline gold foliage sprays on one cutting here finds close parallels in the Breviarium Diocecesis Strigonensis, a codex produced in Esztergom in the period c. 1423-39 for the archbishop of that northern Hungarian town (Salzburg Cathedral, M II 11: Farbenpracht auf Pergament, 2015, no. 11). Moreover, the script on the other fragment is sufficiently angular and prickly to suggest an origin in one of Germany's eastern neighbours.
Two cuttings with historiated initials from a Gradual, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern Germany, Bohemia or perhaps Hungary, c. 1500] Two nearly square cuttings, each with a large initial: (i) initial 'P'(opening "P[uer natus est nobis et filius et filius datus] est nobis cuius ...", the introit for the Mass of Christmas day) in burnished gold with foliate designs laid over in yellow paint, enclosing the Virgin in the bower, alone and kneeling before the Christ Child, all superimposed onto a realistic red and brown frame edged with liquid gold, with sprays of realistic coloured foliage on hairline gold stems and with large gold bezants in margin, remains of 3 lines of text with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 21mm.), slight scuffing to gold in places, else good condition, 147 by 135mm.; (ii) initial 'S' (in error for 'M', opening "[M]e expec[tave]runt p[eccatores ut] perderent me testim[onia] ...", an introit for the feast of virgin-martyrs) in red acanthus leaves with details picked out in white, enclosing a young woman with long hair and a decorated headdress (but no halo) in a walled flower garden with a lamb and an open book, all on brightly burnished gold grounds with angular extensions to the corners (the gold spaces within the corners of the initial decorated with delicately painted red scrolls), red rubrics on reverse, 5 lines of text in a notably spiky hand with nearly every minim ending in a spiked foot and further spikes added to lefthand side of some ascenders, with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 19 or 20mm.), slight damage to animal's face in initial, one small original flaw in parchment, else good condition, 163 by 164mm.; both attached to card mounts The realistic frame and the decorations overlaid on the gold leaf here point towards southern Germany. However, the fluttering hairline gold foliage sprays on one cutting here finds close parallels in the Breviarium Diocecesis Strigonensis, a codex produced in Esztergom in the period c. 1423-39 for the archbishop of that northern Hungarian town (Salzburg Cathedral, M II 11: Farbenpracht auf Pergament, 2015, no. 11). Moreover, the script on the other fragment is sufficiently angular and prickly to suggest an origin in one of Germany's eastern neighbours.
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