Pentecost, in a large historiated initial on a cutting probably from a Gradual, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [probably Austria, c. 1500] Cutting, trimmed to edges of initial, with a large initial 'S' (probably opening 'Spiritus Domini replevit orbem ...', the introit for Whitsunday) in burnished gold, enclosing the Holy Spirit as it descends in the form of a dove to the Virgin and followers, who sit in a gothic temple reading books in their laps, all visible through a cut away wall and before a wide and mountainous landscape, the initial on blue and burgundy grounds with foliage picked out in white and yellow penwork, thin gold extensions from initial leading to bursts of pink and green stylised acanthus leaves in margin, with a single blue and red flowerhead and numerous gold bezants surrounded by penstrokes, reverse with two lines of text in a high-grade liturgical hand ('igne discipu[lis apparuit & / tri]buit eis ca[rismatum]') with music on a 4-line red stave, and remains of a red folio no. there in upper outer corner, slight scuffs (mostly to edges), else in good condition, 250 by 215mm. Sold in the Hotel des Ventes, Geneva, 13 June 2016, lot 5, and acquired there by Roger Martin The highly stylised acanthus leaves and flowers with pointed centres surrounded by circles of thin curling petals and bezants surrounded by flagella-like penwork strokes, finds close parallel in a Gradual of the same date in Seckau, Styria (see Mit Pinsel, Feder, Gold und Malachit - Buchmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts, 2016, no. 24).
Pentecost, in a large historiated initial on a cutting probably from a Gradual, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [probably Austria, c. 1500] Cutting, trimmed to edges of initial, with a large initial 'S' (probably opening 'Spiritus Domini replevit orbem ...', the introit for Whitsunday) in burnished gold, enclosing the Holy Spirit as it descends in the form of a dove to the Virgin and followers, who sit in a gothic temple reading books in their laps, all visible through a cut away wall and before a wide and mountainous landscape, the initial on blue and burgundy grounds with foliage picked out in white and yellow penwork, thin gold extensions from initial leading to bursts of pink and green stylised acanthus leaves in margin, with a single blue and red flowerhead and numerous gold bezants surrounded by penstrokes, reverse with two lines of text in a high-grade liturgical hand ('igne discipu[lis apparuit & / tri]buit eis ca[rismatum]') with music on a 4-line red stave, and remains of a red folio no. there in upper outer corner, slight scuffs (mostly to edges), else in good condition, 250 by 215mm. Sold in the Hotel des Ventes, Geneva, 13 June 2016, lot 5, and acquired there by Roger Martin The highly stylised acanthus leaves and flowers with pointed centres surrounded by circles of thin curling petals and bezants surrounded by flagella-like penwork strokes, finds close parallel in a Gradual of the same date in Seckau, Styria (see Mit Pinsel, Feder, Gold und Malachit - Buchmalerei des 15. Jahrhunderts, 2016, no. 24).
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