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Lot 147
Sale 800 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Lots 1-273
Nov 12, 2020
4:00AM CT
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Nov 13, 2020
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Lot Description
[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS]. Leaf from a Book of Hours with historiated initial “S” on recto depicting the Pentecost. [France, c.1450].
One leaf, 155 x 104mm. On Vellum. 16 lines of text in a gothic bookhand in dark brown ink, rubrics in red. With historiated 6-line initial “S” depicting the Pentecost opening the text: “Spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarum…”. Recto decorated with foliate and floral border in upper and lower margins, with a bar border in burnished gold and blue on inner margin. Eight 1-to 2-line initials in gold on blue or red grounds, on recto and verso. Matted.
Provenance: Gift from Fanny and Philip Duschnes, December 1948 (printed presentation message on mat).
Property of a Midwestern Museum