A young man before a council of elders, 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 153mm., with a large arch-topped miniature enclosing a young clean-shaven man before a council of five seated elders, in a gothic interior with sculptures set into the walls, in the background the same young man led by a friend to the meeting, border on two sides of coloured acanthus leaves and foliage, enclosing a bearded man, some small scuffs and losses to paint, laid down on wooden board, nineteenth-century “no. 475” on reverse, carved gilt frame

Catalogue Note

From the same manuscript as the previous lot.