Miniatures from Mackus Company

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M191 Nativity
Gold Leaf and Tempera on Vellum
Circle of the Master of Petrarch's Triumphs
France, Rouen, ca. 1510

Written in dark brown ink in a regular lettre batarde script, in a double column, on 25 lines, ruled in red, rubrics in red. Illuminated borders of brushed liquid gold speckled with black-ink dots and containing silver-gray and orange and blue acanthus along with orange, blue, and rose flowers. Illuminated in the same workshop as a splendid Book of Hours in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, MS 25, of about the same size and layout, and in which appears similar text, decoration, and illumination (Delaissé et al., Rothschild Collection, pp. 540-61). Sister leaves are in the collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Illustration: Nativity, in a shed, Mary on the left and Joseph on the right, two angels in the center, shepherds in the background, looking in through the open shed, the ox and ass in the left background behind Mary, the Christ-child in the center on a white cloth, in an architectural frame.

Size: 195 x 130 mm. (Matted 11 ½ x 9 in.)
$8,500

M356 Annunciation to the Virgin
Gold Leaf and Tempera on Vellum
Artist, Sano di Pietro
Italy, Sienna, ca. 1450

Leaf from a Missal, written in black to brown ink with some red in a rotunda script, in a double column, on 29 lines, rubrics in red, versal initials alternating in red and blue with contrasting penwork. Historiated initial "D" portrays the "Annunciation to the Virgin". The illumination is between two columns of text composed of acanthus, gold discs, and pine cones, and with two birds in the upper margin and two butterflies the lower margin.

Size: 350 x 250 mm. (13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.)
$12,500

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