Sunday 30 September 2018
The Brummer Gallery Archive III: A Bohemian(?) Crucifixion Miniature
At the left edge of the page above, introduced at the top of a previous post, is a Crucifixion miniature, apparently from a late 15th-century German or Bohemian Missal:
Saturday 29 September 2018
Illuminated Manuscripts from the Collection of Christopher Cone and Stanley J. Seeger
A short post today, simply to mention that there are five illuminated manuscript items buried within the Cone - Seeger sale at Sotheby's on 30 October.
Lot 154 belongs to a group of cuttings I have been working on for some time; it belonged to John Ruskin:
Lot 157 is particularly intriguing for both its iconography and its text:
Lot 158 is charming, and potentially of some importance for its text:
The main Sotheby's sale of medieval manuscripts will be on 4 December.
Lot 154 belongs to a group of cuttings I have been working on for some time; it belonged to John Ruskin:
Lot 157 is particularly intriguing for both its iconography and its text:
Lot 158 is charming, and potentially of some importance for its text:
The main Sotheby's sale of medieval manuscripts will be on 4 December.
Saturday 22 September 2018
The Brummer Gallery Archive II: The Budé Bible
Last week we found an illuminated manuscript classified, because of its binding, under the heading "LEATHER". The image above is a page from the "PAINTINGS" section of one of the Brummer photobooks. At first sight it looks like a jumble, and it is, but taking the images one by one, several manuscripts can be recognised. I will look at some of them, in separate posts.
Saturday 15 September 2018
The Brummer Gallery Archive I: An Antiphonary from Regensburg
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A nice example is on the page above, from the Gallery's scrapbook of sold items. Under the heading "Miscellaneous - Leather" it includes five small photos of bookbindings, and three of the insides of the respective books.
Saturday 8 September 2018
Leaves from a 14th-Century Picard(?) Book of Hours
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Saturday 1 September 2018
Au Vélin d'or [II]
The other item in the 1929 catalogue that caught my eye is this:
Described as St Peter holding a key, in red green and yellow, on a leaf 26×23cm:
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