ANTIPHONARY LEAF [The Last Judgment]

Sale 1932 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 3,450

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

(ANTIPHONARY LEAF.) [The Last Judgment.] large illuminated initial a in colors and gold, on vellum leaf from latin antiphonary.<> Initial approximately 118x117 mm, leaf 458x305 mm, hinged to stiff card; text slightly faded, some surface wear, mainly affecting border, in particular the miniature at lower left (see below). Flanders, circa 1500

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The painting illuminates the first letter of the first word of the Matins response to the first lesson for the first Sunday of Advent. On the same page is a full floral border in colors with gold and silver acanthus scrolls on red ground, incorporating miniature in lower left corner depicting Cistercian(?) abbot kneeling at prie-dieu in domed loggia, with patron saint at his side and landscape beyond.<