The Joy of the Shepherds, miniature on a leaf from an illuminated copy of Raoul Bollart, De la victoire et du triomphe du roi de France Louis XII contre les Vénitiens, in Latin verse, on vellum [Northern France (Paris or Rouen), c.1509]

single leaf, 215mm. by 157mm., with a large rectangular miniature within a gold frame, 75mm. by 90mm., with two shepherds in discussion on a road before a hilly landscape where others stand with raised sticks or hand-in-hand, 2 small initials in liquid gold on pale brown or blue grounds, miniature set within 12 lines of text in an ornate lettre bâtarde with elaborate penstrokes, reference notes in margin in a fine humanist hand, eighteenth-century folio number ‘11’ on recto, 23 lines of text and another initial on verso, very slight staining along upper edge, some remnants of brown tape from previous framing, else excellent condition, in card mount

From the same manuscript as the preceding lot, and closely corresponding to fol.10r of its sister manuscript: Geneva, Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, ms. lat.97 (Aubert, Notices sur les Manuscrits Petau, 1911, pp.49-50 and L’enluminure de Charlemagne à François Ier, 1976, no.65; reproduced in the recent facsimile of the manuscript’s illuminations on the e-codices website).