A realistic human skull and a shinbone within an initial, on a leaf from an illuminated Processional, in Latin, on parchment [north eastern Italy (perhaps Padua), early sixteenth century] Single leaf, with a large initial ‘C’ (opening “Credo quod redemptor …”: a responsory for the Office of the Dead), in green leafy bands on brightly burnished gold grounds, enclosing a skillfully executed skull and a shinbone on black grounds, a full decorative border on two sides of a delicately executed classical architectural pot from which gold foliage grows, enclosing two cabochons (these with figures of a robed monk holding a censer and a kneeling robed figure picked out in grey and white paint on soft red grounds), these borders enclosed within gold edging and with gold tassels at their tips, single column of 6 lines of text in an excellent late gothic bookhand with music on 4-line red staves (rastrum 15mm.), one small chip to edge of upper border and a circular mark where a wax drop fell and was removed, causing paint flaking, else in outstanding and bright condition, 261 by 187mm. From the same parent manuscript as the previous lot.
A realistic human skull and a shinbone within an initial, on a leaf from an illuminated Processional, in Latin, on parchment [north eastern Italy (perhaps Padua), early sixteenth century] Single leaf, with a large initial ‘C’ (opening “Credo quod redemptor …”: a responsory for the Office of the Dead), in green leafy bands on brightly burnished gold grounds, enclosing a skillfully executed skull and a shinbone on black grounds, a full decorative border on two sides of a delicately executed classical architectural pot from which gold foliage grows, enclosing two cabochons (these with figures of a robed monk holding a censer and a kneeling robed figure picked out in grey and white paint on soft red grounds), these borders enclosed within gold edging and with gold tassels at their tips, single column of 6 lines of text in an excellent late gothic bookhand with music on 4-line red staves (rastrum 15mm.), one small chip to edge of upper border and a circular mark where a wax drop fell and was removed, causing paint flaking, else in outstanding and bright condition, 261 by 187mm. From the same parent manuscript as the previous lot.
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