Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CHRIST PRESENTING GOSPELS.) Vellum leaf from an illuminated Latin antiphonary with historiated initial D at beginning of first response to first lesson of Matins for second Monday after Easter, three-quarter border incorporating historiated roundel in lower margin, text written in gothic script in brown ink beneath 4-line staves in red with square notation in brown, 5 lines, with rubrics in red, recto and verso. Leaf 600x400 mm, initial 92x79 mm, roundel 80 mm in diameter; text slightly faded, some flaking of gold surrounding initial and pigment at bottom of roundel. Bologna, 14th century