Circle of Benedetto Bordone

Valeur estimée
£ 7 000 – 10 000
Date de l'enchèreClassic
10.07.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événement
Royaume-Uni, London
ID 1249876
Lot 22 | Circle of Benedetto Bordone
Circle of Benedetto Bordone
Skull and bone, historiated initial C on a leaf from a Processional, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [north-eastern Italy, probably Venice, c.1520-30]
An elegant companion leaf to the previous lot, illuminated by an artist working in the style of Benedetto Bordone of Padua.

262 x 186mm. The initial opening a responsory for the Office of the Dead, (‘Credo quod redemptor […]’ ), six lines of text and music on 4-line staves in red, two large decorated penwork initial, marginal penwork flourishing, with two-sided panel border with foliate emerging from a vase in gold on a black ground, incorporating two cartouches, both with robed figures, one kneeling, the other holding a censer, in grisaille on a red ground (some slight fading of ink, tiny almost imperceptible hole at base of inner border). Pasted into window mount at edges.

Provenance:
(1) Sotheby’s 29 June 2007, lot 15

(2) Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 6 July 2016, lot 86.

An elegant companion leaf to the previous lot. The finesse of the illuminator is shown particularly in the delightful vignette of the standing figure, with the delicate and skilfull handling of his robes, highlighted in white. As with its sister leaf, this leaf almost exactly mirrors the layout and illumination of f.11 in a fragment of 29 leaves from a Processional now in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., MS Typ 310 (see Roger S. Wieck, Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1983, 131 and pl.52).
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