St. John blessing the poisoned chalice and St. Michael slaying the devil, large miniatures on a leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours, in Latin, on vellum [Central France (probably Bourges), c.1480-90]

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Vellum

single leaf, 167mm. by 110mm., with two half-page arch-topped miniatures, each 90mm. high: (a) St. John as a young man in gold robes, blessing the poisoned chalice before a group of men in a wide open rocky landscape, two dead bodies on the floor behind him; (b) St. Michael in golden armour stamping on a grinning bat-winged devil as he raises his sword to strike it, in a similar landscape; both above 12 lines of fine lettre bâtarde, initials and line-fillers in liquid gold on red, brown and blue grounds, folio number “94” in later hand, excellent condition

Catalogue Note

From the same manuscript as the previous lot.