Live auction - Lot 257
[Miniature - France]
Illuminated vellum leaf of a printed Book of Hours, depicting the rich man and Lazarus.
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
[Paris, ca. 1500]
Illumination, 16 x 11 cm (sl. wavy, handwritten foliation "70").
Surrounded by a three-quarter architectural border. The scene takes place in a landscape in front of a Gothic mansion. Decorated with gold, red, blue, brown, green and pink colour, text alternating red and blue one- and two-line initials enhanced in liquid gold. The text on verso is surrounded by a three-quarter historiated border.
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