The storming of a castle and murder of its ruler, 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

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

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Description

Vellum

upper portion of a leaf, 220mm. by 160mm., with a large arch-topped miniature enclosing an army surging through the open gateway of a castle, its general in golden armour at the rear, within the castle the murder of its ruler by men with cudgels seen through a cutaway ornamental doorway, border on two sides of coloured acanthus leaves and foliage, enclosing a soldier with a sword, smudge to face of soldier in border, slight scuffs, else excellent condition, laid down on wooden board, nineteenth-century “no. 477” on reverse, carved gilt frame

Catalogue Note

From the same manuscript as the previous lot.