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ST MICHAEL SLAYING THE DRAGON, historiated initial Q cut from a Psalter, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[southern Germany, first half 13th century]
127 x 95mm (including extension). The initial of burnished silver and blue, with a dragon entwined around the lower part, its wings and tail forming the extension of the 'Q', its body a pale brown/pink, wings in blue, the infill with the full-length figure of St Michael, standing on the neck of the dragon and pushing his spear into its mouth with both hands, in green and pink robes, with wings in red and halo of blue; the whole on a ground of burnished silver within a green and pink frame border; lightly pasted onto card at edges, text on verso in a protogothic bookhand (silver oxidised). Provenance: Parke-Bernet, New York.
This striking historiated initial opened Psalm LI ('Quid gloriaris in malitia...'), and so would have marked one of the major divisions in a three or ten-section Psalter. In German Psalters, this opening initial 'Q' was traditionally illustrated with the image of St Michael slaying the Dragon. The present composition is very close to an historiated initial Q from a Psalter which was produced, it has been suggested, in South Germany, see Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, 1992, no. 32. It also bears distinct stylistic similarities with the illumination in a mid-13th century Psalter produced in the diocese of Augsburg, New York Public Library Spencer 11 (Splendor of the Word, exh. cat New York 2005, no. 39).
[southern Germany, first half 13th century]
127 x 95mm (including extension). The initial of burnished silver and blue, with a dragon entwined around the lower part, its wings and tail forming the extension of the 'Q', its body a pale brown/pink, wings in blue, the infill with the full-length figure of St Michael, standing on the neck of the dragon and pushing his spear into its mouth with both hands, in green and pink robes, with wings in red and halo of blue; the whole on a ground of burnished silver within a green and pink frame border; lightly pasted onto card at edges, text on verso in a protogothic bookhand (silver oxidised). Provenance: Parke-Bernet, New York.
This striking historiated initial opened Psalm LI ('Quid gloriaris in malitia...'), and so would have marked one of the major divisions in a three or ten-section Psalter. In German Psalters, this opening initial 'Q' was traditionally illustrated with the image of St Michael slaying the Dragon. The present composition is very close to an historiated initial Q from a Psalter which was produced, it has been suggested, in South Germany, see Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, 1992, no. 32. It also bears distinct stylistic similarities with the illumination in a mid-13th century Psalter produced in the diocese of Augsburg, New York Public Library Spencer 11 (Splendor of the Word, exh. cat New York 2005, no. 39).