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HOOPOE CHICKS AND STORKS, BESTIAIRE D'AMOUR OF RICHARD DE FOURNIVAL (1201–1259/60) [FRANCE (PARIS?), MID-13TH CENTURY]
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10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Hoopoe chicks plucking old Feathers from their mother and a stork being fed by its young, two miniatures from the Bestiaire d’amour of Richard de Fournival (1201–1259/60)
- 38 x 95 mm each, framed together
- c.1250-75
two cuttings, each c.40 by 95mm, vellum, with a miniature on the recto, the verso with five lines of text, partly obscured by glue and paper, the miniatures with some smudging and pigment-loss