The presentation of a manuscript to a patron, large miniature evidently from an illuminated manuscript of Cicero’s works in French translation, on vellum [Central France (perhaps Nantes or Tours), third quarter of the fifteenth century]

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

Vellum

upper portion of a leaf, 215mm. by 165mm., with a large arch-topped miniature enclosing a seated patron on a throne draped with a blue cloth with golden fleur-de-lys, receiving a book from a scribe or artist who kneels before him, all before the patron’s court and an ornamental trellis-work archway through which courtiers and ladies walk into the garden, border on two sides of coloured acanthus leaves and foliage, enclosing a man who points to the scene, some discolouration to border and small flake from patron’s head, else good condition, laid down on wooden board, nineteenth-century “no. 471” on reverse, carved gilt frame

Catalogue Note

From the same manuscript as the previous lot, and most probably from the opening of Cicero, De Amicitia, or another text by the same author, showing the presentation of the parent volume to its intended owner.