![A GROUP OF ILLUMINATIONS, including: A SAINT, in a historatied initial ‘S’ cut from a choirbook on vellum [Lombardy, final quarter 15th century], 60 x 55mm, glued down on paper, mounted and framed; A LEAF FROM A 13TH-CENTURY PSALTER, in Latin [northeastern France or Paris, c.1200], 140 x 122mm, with two inhabited initials, the text from Psalms 84 (‘Quam Dilecta’) and 85 (‘Benedixisti Domine’), written above top line in a Romanesque script and similar in style to the spectacular Psalter from the reign of Philip Augustus (1179-1223) sold by Ferrini, Important Illuminated Manuscripts, 2000, no 14, in a double-sided frame; and a 20th-century miniature on vellum by Martin Frost, dated 1979, 115 x 95mm, framed.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CSK/2017_CSK_14432_0375_000(a_group_of_illuminations_including_a_saint_in_a_historatied_initial_s063920).jpg?w=1)
PROPERTY FROM THE DESCENDANTS OF FIELD MARSHAL WILLIAM RIDDELL BIRDWOOD, 1ST BARON (1865-1951)
A GROUP OF ILLUMINATIONS, including: A SAINT, in a historatied initial ‘S’ cut from a choirbook on vellum [Lombardy, final quarter 15th century], 60 x 55mm, glued down on paper, mounted and framed; A LEAF FROM A 13TH-CENTURY PSALTER, in Latin [northeastern France or Paris, c.1200], 140 x 122mm, with two inhabited initials, the text from Psalms 84 (‘Quam Dilecta’) and 85 (‘Benedixisti Domine’), written above top line in a Romanesque script and similar in style to the spectacular Psalter from the reign of Philip Augustus (1179-1223) sold by Ferrini, Important Illuminated Manuscripts, 2000, no 14, in a double-sided frame; and a 20th-century miniature on vellum by Martin Frost, dated 1979, 115 x 95mm, framed.
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A GROUP OF ILLUMINATIONS, including: A SAINT, in a historatied initial ‘S’ cut from a choirbook on vellum [Lombardy, final quarter 15th century], 60 x 55mm, glued down on paper, mounted and framed; A LEAF FROM A 13TH-CENTURY PSALTER, in Latin [northeastern France or Paris, c.1200], 140 x 122mm, with two inhabited initials, the text from Psalms 84 (‘Quam Dilecta’) and 85 (‘Benedixisti Domine’), written above top line in a Romanesque script and similar in style to the spectacular Psalter from the reign of Philip Augustus (1179-1223) sold by Ferrini, Important Illuminated Manuscripts, 2000, no 14, in a double-sided frame; and a 20th-century miniature on vellum by Martin Frost, dated 1979, 115 x 95mm, framed.