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KING DAVID IN PENITENCE, historiated initial 'U' cut from a choirbook, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Ferrara, c.1470]
113 x128mm overall. Within a pink-staved initial decorated with white penwork and blue and green foliage and set against a burnished gold ground, the half-length figure of King David, white-haired and bearded, wearing a girdled green robe and a tall turbaned crown, beating his breast and his eyes raised towards the golden rays that spark to decorate the dark blue background (cut to shape, with areas of damage and staining particularly affecting the background but also darkening part of the face, some losses to gold). Mounted and framed.
This fine initial is attributable to Guglielmo Giraldi or one of his collaborators. He was the favourite illuminator of Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and was also reponsible for the decoration of series of choirbooks for Ferrarese churches and monasteries. The present initial is tellingly close in drapery style, gesture and backgound to his work in a Gradual for S. Cristoforo (Ferrara, Museo di Schifanoia, Ms O, OA 1344) illustrated in La miniatura a Ferrara dal tempo di Cosmè Tura all'eredità di Ercole de' Roberti, ed. F. Toniolo (1998), p.204.
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KING DAVID IN PENITENCE, miniature introducing the Penitential Psalms on a leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, 172 x 128mm, northern France c.1420, showing the King kneeling and praying to the half-length figure of God in a mandorla in the sky, all set in a bleak landscape with a building in the middle distance and the distant turrets of a town, above four lines of text opening with a large blue initial against a ground of burnished gold and with ivy-sprays in the infill, a full-page border with a bar baguette and sprays of golden trefoils on hairline tendrils with coloured flowerhead terminals, verso with line-endings and four one-line illuminated initials (margins discoloured and some smudging of ink in borders).
LEAF from a 13th-century Bible reputedly from the Carthusian monastery of Villeneuve-les-Avignon, 210 x 152mm, containing end of Numbers, xv to xviii, three two-line initials alternately of red and blue with flourishing of the contrasting colour and margin-high penwork extensions of red and blue (minor spotting and yellowing). (3)
[Ferrara, c.1470]
113 x128mm overall. Within a pink-staved initial decorated with white penwork and blue and green foliage and set against a burnished gold ground, the half-length figure of King David, white-haired and bearded, wearing a girdled green robe and a tall turbaned crown, beating his breast and his eyes raised towards the golden rays that spark to decorate the dark blue background (cut to shape, with areas of damage and staining particularly affecting the background but also darkening part of the face, some losses to gold). Mounted and framed.
This fine initial is attributable to Guglielmo Giraldi or one of his collaborators. He was the favourite illuminator of Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and was also reponsible for the decoration of series of choirbooks for Ferrarese churches and monasteries. The present initial is tellingly close in drapery style, gesture and backgound to his work in a Gradual for S. Cristoforo (Ferrara, Museo di Schifanoia, Ms O, OA 1344) illustrated in La miniatura a Ferrara dal tempo di Cosmè Tura all'eredità di Ercole de' Roberti, ed. F. Toniolo (1998), p.204.
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KING DAVID IN PENITENCE, miniature introducing the Penitential Psalms on a leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, 172 x 128mm, northern France c.1420, showing the King kneeling and praying to the half-length figure of God in a mandorla in the sky, all set in a bleak landscape with a building in the middle distance and the distant turrets of a town, above four lines of text opening with a large blue initial against a ground of burnished gold and with ivy-sprays in the infill, a full-page border with a bar baguette and sprays of golden trefoils on hairline tendrils with coloured flowerhead terminals, verso with line-endings and four one-line illuminated initials (margins discoloured and some smudging of ink in borders).
LEAF from a 13th-century Bible reputedly from the Carthusian monastery of Villeneuve-les-Avignon, 210 x 152mm, containing end of Numbers, xv to xviii, three two-line initials alternately of red and blue with flourishing of the contrasting colour and margin-high penwork extensions of red and blue (minor spotting and yellowing). (3)
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