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PASSION OF CHRIST, a cycle of historiated initials on six leaves from a Book of Hours, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Bruges, c.1465]
228 x 154mm. Six leaves, each with 18 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand between 2 verticals and 19 horizontals ruled in red, top and bottom pair to margin, justification: 146-157 x 107-97mm, rubrics in red, line-endings of blue and red, one-line initials alternately of blue or burnished gold with flourishing of red or black, two-line initials of burnished gold with grounds and infills of pink and blue with white penwork decoration, the SIX LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS with frames of blue or pink with white decoration against grounds of burnished gold, accompanied by FULL-PAGE BORDERS with a double fillet of pink and gold and sprays of strawberries, flowers and blue and gold acanthus interspersed with burnished gold disks (two leaves overtrimmed at inner edge, all leaves pinks faded and extreme edge of lower margin darkened).
The subjects in the initials and the Hour of the Virgin that each opens are as follows:
Betrayal (lauds); Christ before Pilate (prime); Flagellation (terce); Carrying the Cross (sext); Crucifixion (none); Laying in the Tomb (compline).
These high quality initials were clearly painted in the workshop of Willem Vrelant, the illuminator who painted so many manuscripts for the Dukes of Burgundy and their court, and whose style was so influential that it coloured much of Bruges manuscript production in the second half of the 15th century.
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TWO ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND A FOLIATE BORDER, on a leaf from a Breviary, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Westphalia, probably Cologne, c.1470]
364 x 223mm. Two columns of 39 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand between 4 verticals and 40 horizontals ruled in brown, justification: 260 x 177mm, folio number 1 in upper right corner, rubrics in red, capitals touched red, one- and two-line initials in red and blue, one six-line intial of burnished gold against a quartered ground of pink and blue with intricate white decoration, LARGE ILLUMINATED FOLIATE INITIAL with staves of blue with scrolling acanthus twining around a central green stem against a ground of burnished gold and with infilling of involved foliate sprays of blue, green, pink and rust, a bar border of gold, blue and pink with contained panels of curling acanthus in upper and lower margins (fading of pink).
This exquisitely executed page was the opening folio of a volume of a Breviary; it carries the beginning of matins for the Feast of Pentecost. (7)
[Bruges, c.1465]
228 x 154mm. Six leaves, each with 18 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand between 2 verticals and 19 horizontals ruled in red, top and bottom pair to margin, justification: 146-157 x 107-97mm, rubrics in red, line-endings of blue and red, one-line initials alternately of blue or burnished gold with flourishing of red or black, two-line initials of burnished gold with grounds and infills of pink and blue with white penwork decoration, the SIX LARGE HISTORIATED INITIALS with frames of blue or pink with white decoration against grounds of burnished gold, accompanied by FULL-PAGE BORDERS with a double fillet of pink and gold and sprays of strawberries, flowers and blue and gold acanthus interspersed with burnished gold disks (two leaves overtrimmed at inner edge, all leaves pinks faded and extreme edge of lower margin darkened).
The subjects in the initials and the Hour of the Virgin that each opens are as follows:
Betrayal (lauds); Christ before Pilate (prime); Flagellation (terce); Carrying the Cross (sext); Crucifixion (none); Laying in the Tomb (compline).
These high quality initials were clearly painted in the workshop of Willem Vrelant, the illuminator who painted so many manuscripts for the Dukes of Burgundy and their court, and whose style was so influential that it coloured much of Bruges manuscript production in the second half of the 15th century.
with
TWO ILLUMINATED INITIALS AND A FOLIATE BORDER, on a leaf from a Breviary, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Westphalia, probably Cologne, c.1470]
364 x 223mm. Two columns of 39 lines written in brown ink in a gothic bookhand between 4 verticals and 40 horizontals ruled in brown, justification: 260 x 177mm, folio number 1 in upper right corner, rubrics in red, capitals touched red, one- and two-line initials in red and blue, one six-line intial of burnished gold against a quartered ground of pink and blue with intricate white decoration, LARGE ILLUMINATED FOLIATE INITIAL with staves of blue with scrolling acanthus twining around a central green stem against a ground of burnished gold and with infilling of involved foliate sprays of blue, green, pink and rust, a bar border of gold, blue and pink with contained panels of curling acanthus in upper and lower margins (fading of pink).
This exquisitely executed page was the opening folio of a volume of a Breviary; it carries the beginning of matins for the Feast of Pentecost. (7)