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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
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