BREVIARY. Bifolium from a large ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Seville or Toledo, 1430s] 414 x 290mm, bifolium. 20 lines, ruled in plummet, justification: 270 x 180mm, written in black ink in a gothic bookhand of two sizes, rubrics in red, capitals touched yellow, one-line initials of red or blue with contrasting flourishing of lilac or red, 8 two-line initials of the same colours with elaborate flourishing extending into the margins, TWO ILLUMINATED INITIALS with staves of dark pink and blue with monochrome decoration against grounds of burnished gold and with foliage sprays in the infill,THREE-SIDED BORDER with a pink and burnished gold bar and curling foliage of orange, blue, green, pink and mauve with sprays of small flowers and fruits of the same colours and burnished gold (slight rubbing to outer margins and some abrasion of the gold). The bifolium comes from the Sanctorale section of the Breviary and carries feasts for February, including St Eulalia and St Valentine. The colours and forms of this border are characteristic work of the illuminator known as the Master of the Cypresses who painted a series of choirbooks for the Cathedral of Seville. Iniguez, who gave the Master this name because of the frequent appearance of cypress trees in the initials of the Seville choirbooks, sggested that he could be identified with Pedro da Toledo, an illuminator who was documented as working for Seville Cathedral during the 1430s. D. A. Iniguez, "El Maestro de los cipreses", Archivo Espanol de arte y arqueologia , xi, 1928 J. Dominguez Bordona, Spanish Illumination (Florence, 1930), ii, pl. 135
BREVIARY. Bifolium from a large ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Seville or Toledo, 1430s] 414 x 290mm, bifolium. 20 lines, ruled in plummet, justification: 270 x 180mm, written in black ink in a gothic bookhand of two sizes, rubrics in red, capitals touched yellow, one-line initials of red or blue with contrasting flourishing of lilac or red, 8 two-line initials of the same colours with elaborate flourishing extending into the margins, TWO ILLUMINATED INITIALS with staves of dark pink and blue with monochrome decoration against grounds of burnished gold and with foliage sprays in the infill,THREE-SIDED BORDER with a pink and burnished gold bar and curling foliage of orange, blue, green, pink and mauve with sprays of small flowers and fruits of the same colours and burnished gold (slight rubbing to outer margins and some abrasion of the gold). The bifolium comes from the Sanctorale section of the Breviary and carries feasts for February, including St Eulalia and St Valentine. The colours and forms of this border are characteristic work of the illuminator known as the Master of the Cypresses who painted a series of choirbooks for the Cathedral of Seville. Iniguez, who gave the Master this name because of the frequent appearance of cypress trees in the initials of the Seville choirbooks, sggested that he could be identified with Pedro da Toledo, an illuminator who was documented as working for Seville Cathedral during the 1430s. D. A. Iniguez, "El Maestro de los cipreses", Archivo Espanol de arte y arqueologia , xi, 1928 J. Dominguez Bordona, Spanish Illumination (Florence, 1930), ii, pl. 135
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