Continental and Illuminations
Illuminated leaf on vellum from a Prayerbook. Germany (?Hildesheim), c. (1524.)
Full illuminated border on each side of the leaf composed of coloured flowers and acanthus and other leaves, also showing (at foot of recto) a peasant wielding a stick in front of a rearing donkey, and (on verso) a jester, a red dragon and a bird.Size of leaf: 165 x 133mm. Text written in a calligraphic lettre bâtarde.
A leaf from a handsome and very unusual German prayerbook dated 1524, perhaps made for Albrecht, count of Mansfeld (1480-1560). The manuscript originally contained two borders which were dated 1524, and one leaf had an angel holding a shield with the arms of Masefeld.Other leaves are described in S. N. Fliegel, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn collection of manuscript illuminations, 1999, pp. 67-9, nos. 65-7.Very slight rubbing.
Stock Code: CO17777
