Original leaf from a richly illuminated manuscript Psalter - Prayer-book. 23 lines of Latin text. Written in unusual gothic cursive script on animal vellum.(165 x 135mm - 6.6 x 5.4"). (For sister leaves see The Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, The Cleveland Museum of Art).
Northern Germany, (Hildesheim?) c. 1524.
One three-line illuminated initial in gold on red ground with gold tracery. Elaborate panel borders with full gold ground, strewn with diverse floral motifs – plus a man dressed in period attire, carrying a large cup and (verso) a bird balancing on the petal of a violet.
This highly personalized prayer-book was written and illuminated in Germany, as evidenced by the painted Arms of Mansfeld (a prominent North German family) on a leaf, and the inclusion of St. Godehard (d. 1038), bishop of Hildesheim, portrayed as a miniature on another leaf. The date 1524 occurs in two locations in the prayer-book.
Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.
