Illuminated Manuscripts from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

1480. France (possibly Maine or Anjou): c. 1480. Single leaf, 162 mm x 110 mm. Slight fading, in an old frame with metal fittings. A finely painted miniature with the use of gold modeling and the cloud of cherubim in the tradition pioneered by Jean Fouquet. § A finely painted miniature depicting the Virgin and… Read more about this item

1490. Naples: late 15th century. A cutting, 173 mm x 182 mm, with historiated initial 'E' (doubtless the introit 'Ecce advenit... for Mass at Epiphany), 147 mm x 152 mm. Slight spots of rubbing. In an elaborate gold frame. § A large initial "E" containing the Virgin and Child seated on the right with Joseph… Read more about this item

1350. Tuscany: c. 1350. Folio, 430 x 308 mm. Single leaf. With four-line staves of music on both sides with five (recto) and six (verso) lines of text beneath. With a very fine initial 'A' in Tuscan colors. The top edge has been repaired (perhaps at the time) with a strip of vellum, for unknown reasons (perhaps… Read more about this item

1430. Britanny: c. 1430. 7.8" x 5.6". Illuminated leaf on vellum, from a Book of Hours with two large miniatures of St. Nicholas blessing the three children in the pickling tub, and of St. Sebastian tied to a pillar in a mountainous landscape while two archers shoot arrows at him, in strong color and burnished gold. In… Read more about this item

1450. Dutch school: c. 1450 or later. Single leaf, 138 x 98mm. Miniature, without text, image of Christ before Caiaphas being held by a soldier with a jester dancing behind Him, disciples (?) behind Him with a cock sitting above the, three-sided border of simple flowers. In good condition. § Origin and provenance unknown; from a… Read more about this item