Miniatures - Folio 5 from Mackus Company

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M3997 Ruth with Sheaves
Vienna Moralized Bible Workshop - The Leber Group
Gold Leaf, Ink, and Tempera on Vellum
Paris, c. 1230

A single leaf from a Bible, written in a minute gothic hand in black ink with versal initials touched in red. The ornament, figure style, and details of the historiated initial are closest to a number of manuscripts that Robert Branner has grouped around "Leber 6," a Psalter (Rouen, Bibliothèque Municipale). The historiated initial "I" opens the Book of Ruth, "In diebus unius…" (In the days of one of the judges….) The text includes Judges 20:35-Ruth 1:14.

Size: 147 x 105 mm. (Matted 10 x 8 in.)
$2,500

M9207 Crucifixion
Hand-illuminated Metalcut from a printed Book of Hours
Paris ca. 1520

This is an original leaf from a Book of Hours. It was printed in Paris by Germain Hardouin in the early 16th century. Full-page metalcut of the Crucifixion of Christ. Full border in liquid gold. Colors in Tempera. Two-line initial "D" opens Psalm 51:15, "Domine labia mea…" (Lord open my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy Praise.)

Size: 167 x 111 mm. (Matted 10 x 8 in.)
$1,500

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