Miniatures - Folio 2 from Mackus Company

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M3150 Entry into Jerusalem
Cutting from a Gradual
Spain, early 17th c.

A cutting from a giant Gradual, in Latin, on vellum. Historiated initial "P" painted in various colors of tempera and picturing Christ riding into Jerusalem. The text is for Palm Sunday. A woman peers up at Christ and lays a cloth and a palm branch in his path.

Size: 200 x 200 mm. (Framed 12 ½ x 12 ½ in.)
$1,750

M3188 Burial Service Gold Leaf and Tempera on Vellum
Circle of the Maître
François France, ca. 1460-70

A large arch-topped miniature with full-page border with blue and red acanthus on a gold ground containing birds and sprays of flowers. The scene is set in a walled cemetery, church at right, a man in a grave holding a shrouded corpse, a priest on the left reads from a book; an acolyte stands beside the priest and behind them are a group of mourners. The composition of the miniature links this illumination to the work of Maître François (see Walters ms 800, f.227). Maître François, whose name is known from a contemporaneous document, was the leading illuminator in Paris in the 1460s and 70s. His workshop was responsible for some of the greatest illumination of the period.

Size: 176 x 130 mm. (Matted 10 x 8 in.)
$6,500

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