Property from the Albright-Knox Art GalleryLeaf from a Book of Hours Illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. [Southern Netherlands, 14th century (last quarter)] Single leaf, c.195×150mm; 22 lines (c.135×82mm); the text comprising the end of Terce (with the Hours of the Cross intermixed) and start of Sext from the Hours of the Virgin; illuminated with a large 6-line foliate initial from which spring foliate borders; 3-line illuminated initials to psalms. A little rubbed, and the corners stained, but still an attractive and very unusual leaf. Illuminated in a very unusual style, with five-petalled flowers in blue, red, or yellow. PROVENANCE:The parent manuscript has not been identified. Other leaves were offered by Philip Duschnes, Catalogue 42 nos. 32–33 (ill.) (attributed to England and dated 1390), one of which contained the beginning of a very unusual text: the ‘Hours of the Contemplation the Blessed Mary on the Passion of the Lord’ (probably the same as the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin), carrying an indulgence of 45 years and 40 days. From the same manuscript as lot 17Otto Ege/Philip DuschnesAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Gallery Purchase, 1940 (1940:355.8)Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Property from the Albright-Knox Art GalleryLeaf from a Book of Hours Illuminated manuscript in Latin on vellum. [Southern Netherlands, 14th century (last quarter)] Single leaf, c.195×150mm; 22 lines (c.135×82mm); the text comprising the end of Terce (with the Hours of the Cross intermixed) and start of Sext from the Hours of the Virgin; illuminated with a large 6-line foliate initial from which spring foliate borders; 3-line illuminated initials to psalms. A little rubbed, and the corners stained, but still an attractive and very unusual leaf. Illuminated in a very unusual style, with five-petalled flowers in blue, red, or yellow. PROVENANCE:The parent manuscript has not been identified. Other leaves were offered by Philip Duschnes, Catalogue 42 nos. 32–33 (ill.) (attributed to England and dated 1390), one of which contained the beginning of a very unusual text: the ‘Hours of the Contemplation the Blessed Mary on the Passion of the Lord’ (probably the same as the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin), carrying an indulgence of 45 years and 40 days. From the same manuscript as lot 17Otto Ege/Philip DuschnesAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Gallery Purchase, 1940 (1940:355.8)Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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