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A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
A leaf from a breviary.
Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
A leaf from a breviary.
Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
A leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter and several 1-line initials.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 1...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
A leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter and several 1-line initials.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 1...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
A leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter and several 1-line initials.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 1...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "Q", decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burnished...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, Book of Hours, written on vellum, with arch topped miniature showing the Flight of the Holy family into Egypt.
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, book of hours, written on vellum in an accomplished book hand.RECTO: 3 lines of text , one 3-line capital, three 1-line capital and 4...
Place & Date: France (propably Brittany) ca 1480
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, Book of Hours, written on vellum.
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, book of hours, written on vellum in an accomplished book hand.RECTO:15 lines of text, one 2-line and three 1-line initials in burnish...
Place & Date: France (propably Brittany) ca 1480
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2020
![[A leaf from a book of hours, with a miniature of Pentecost ].](/uploads/cache/82445-250x250.jpg)
[A leaf from a book of hours, with a miniature of Pentecost ].
A leaf from a book of hours, on vellum, written in a well-finished Gothic book hand. A twofold large miniature of Pentecost. Mary kneeling amidst the apostles, the holy s...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1480
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2020
Use of Liége.
Contents of the Book of Hours : 1. ff. 2-7 : Calendar. In red and brown ink. Justification 115 x 75 mm. 2. ff. 8-11 : 4 passages des Evangiles : - Saint Jean 1, 1-...
Place & Date: c.1480
Selling price: $45000
Sold in 2023
Ad arborum generali.
3 Leaves of the Latin edition of Joh.Andreae's book on trees. "Lectura super arboribus consanguinitatis..." Edited by Heinr. Knoblochtzner in Strassburg ca. 148...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1482
Selling price: $20
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: Tours, c.1485
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: Tours c.1485
Selling price: $1050
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A beautiful leaf from a French Book of Hours, written about 1485. Part of the Book was in The Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, St. John?s Seminary, Camarillo, Cal...
Place & Date: France ca.1485
Selling price: $220
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: One 3-line illuminated initial in burnished gold on colored grounds. Panel border of acanthus leaves, flowers and birds on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground...
Place & Date: Tours c.1485
Selling price: $600
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Very nice vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written in a regular Gothic book hand in Paris, around 1485. The leaf has a panel border on both sides with acanthus le...
Place & Date: France, ca.1485
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A wonderful leaf from a medieval breviary : ivory-white vellum, wide margins, clearly visible ruling* and the ?prickings*?. A very regular book hand in brown/black ink th...
Place & Date: France, ca.1485
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: Tours, c.1485
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2008
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Three 2-line and three 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Five 2-line initials and tone 1-line initial in liquid gold on a red ground
Place & Date: Tours, ca. 1485
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
![[La Mer des Histoires]. Premier aage. Feuillet XXI.](/uploads/cache/41983-250x250.jpg)
[La Mer des Histoires]. Premier aage. Feuillet XXI.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2019
![[La Mer des Histoires]. La tierce aage. Feuillet XXI.](/uploads/cache/42001-250x250.jpg)
[La Mer des Histoires]. La tierce aage. Feuillet XXI.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2019
![[Text page]. La sizieme aage. Feuillet IIc XIII.](/uploads/cache/42006-250x250.jpg)
[Text page]. La sizieme aage. Feuillet IIc XIII.
Incunable text pages from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
![[Text page]. Second aage. Feuillets Lxviii .](/uploads/cache/42007-250x250.jpg)
[Text page]. Second aage. Feuillets Lxviii .
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2019
La iiiie aage. Feuillet iic xlvii.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
![[Text page]. Second aage. Feuillets Lxix.](/uploads/cache/44892-250x250.jpg)
[Text page]. Second aage. Feuillets Lxix.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2019
![[La Mer des Histoires].La sizieme aage. Feuillets IIc XII .](/uploads/cache/44895-250x250.jpg)
[La Mer des Histoires].La sizieme aage. Feuillets IIc XII .
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
![[La Mer des Histoires].La tierce aage. Feuillet IXxxIII.](/uploads/cache/42002-250x250.jpg)
[La Mer des Histoires].La tierce aage. Feuillet IXxxIII.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2020
![[Text page]. La tierce aage. Feuillet IXxxII.](/uploads/cache/42004-250x250.jpg)
[Text page]. La tierce aage. Feuillet IXxxII.
Incunable text pages from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2022
Second aage. Feuillet Lxb.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
![[La Mer des Histoires].(Jesse Tree).](/uploads/cache/42019-250x250.jpg)
[La Mer des Histoires].(Jesse Tree).
Woodcut page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of the fam...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020
![[La Mer des Histoires].La tierce aage. Feuillet VIIIrrXIX rir](/uploads/cache/45370-250x250.jpg)
[La Mer des Histoires].La tierce aage. Feuillet VIIIrrXIX rir
Incunable text pages from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2021
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1490. A beautiful vellum leaf from the calendar in a Book of Hours. This leaf details the month of August begin...
Place & Date: France ca.1490
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2008
Miniature of Job on the dung-hill.
>Archtopped 3/4 page miniature on vellum of Job in the dungheap. Job, naked, but seemingly in good health in a heap of straw. Before him one of his richly dressed frie...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1490
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
GRADUAL
Large leaf from a Florentine Gradual, on vellum, written in black ink, with 5 lines of 4-line musical staves. The gradual, the name derives from the practice of singing ...
Place & Date: Italy, Florence ca. 1490
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2009
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
VERSO: One 4-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-line initial in red and blue. RECTO: Nine 1-line initials in red or blue.
Place & Date: ca. 1490
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Miniature of Job on the dung-hill.
Arch topped 3/4 page miniature on vellum of Job in the dung-heap. Job, naked, but seemingly in good health in a heap of straw. Before him one of his richly dressed friend...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1490
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2011
INCUNABLE
Paper leaf with woodcuts, from a book "CRONECKEN DER SASSEN", printed by Konrad Botho. RECTO: Text containing a large woodcut of the city of Lunenurch in Germ...
Place & Date: Mainz, 1492
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2013
A paper leaf from an incunable.
From the "Legenda Aurea", the book gives the biographies of Saints, and was immensely popular in the later middle ages. A large woodcut of St. John the evangeli...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1498
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2013
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
Leaf published ca. 1498 by Simon Vostre and Pigouchet. Illustration showing Susanna taking a bath. A nice leaf from a Book of Hours. The printer was Simon Vostre.In the b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1498
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2017
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A small vellum leaf from a processional*, written in the 1500's in Spain (?). The pin pricks to draw the red lines can still be seen. There are many initials in red. *Pro...
Place & Date: Spain ca. 1500
Selling price: $40
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Leaf on paper from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours, written on paper, around 1500. The text points in the direction of Holland or the western part of Germany. The writing is not very regular and ...
Place & Date: Germany ca.1500
Selling price: $100
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Leaf on paper from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours, written on paper, around 1500. The text points in the direction of Holland or the western part of Germany. The writing is not very regular and ...
Place & Date: Germany ca.1500
Selling price: $100
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Leaf on paper from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours, written on paper, around 1500. The text points in the direction of Holland or the western part of Germany. The writing is not very regular and ...
Place & Date: Germany ca.1500
Selling price: $100
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Leaf on paper from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours, written on paper, around 1500. The text points in the direction of Holland or the western part of Germany. The writing is not very regular and ...
Place & Date: Germany ca.1500
Selling price: $50
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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
Large initials hand painted in Paris by Hardouin, who had his workshop near the Notre Dame. At the end of the Middle Ages the art of printing was used for Books of Hours,...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1500
Selling price: $110
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Gregorius Quintus...
RECTO: Chronicles describing the pontificates of 7 popes and the life of Diderich III, who married the daughter of the duke of Saxony, and fought in the battle against th...
Place & Date: Germany 1490-1500
Selling price: $25
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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
An early incunabulum ca 1500, printed and the large initials hand painted in Paris by Hardouin, who had his workshop near the Notre Dame. At the end of the Middle Ages t...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1500
Selling price: $110
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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
An early incunabulum ca 1500, printed and the large initials hand painted in Paris by Hardouin, who had his workshop near the Notre Dame. At the end of the Middle Ages t...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1500
Selling price: $70
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Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late gothic hand.
VERSO: One 2-line initial D in burnished gold on a red and blue ground and two 1-line initials in burnished gold on a red and blue ground.RECTO: One 2-line initial in bur...
Place & Date: France/Flanders c.1500
Selling price: $320
Sold in 2010
Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late gothic hand.
VERSO: One 2-line initial I in burnished gold on a red and blue ground In illo tempore.. the start of one of the gospel-readings according Marc in those days. and 2 line-...
Place & Date: France or Flanders, c.1500
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
Book of Hours leaf, printed by Thielman Kerver* in 1507. It is printed on vellum in black and red with many initials hand painted in red, blue and gold.The text is from t...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1500
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
Book of Hours leaf, printed by Thielman Kerver* in 1507. It is printed on vellum in black and red with many initials hand painted in red, blue and gold.The text is from t...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1500
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
Book of Hours leaf, printed by Thielman Kerver* in 1507. It is printed on vellum in black and red with many initials hand painted in red, blue and gold.Next to the text o...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1500
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2008
Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late gothic hand.
VERSO: One 2-line initial P in burnished gold on a red and blue ground and 2 line-fillers on a red and blue ground.RECTO: 17 Lines of text, intils filled in with yellow.
Place & Date: France or Flanders, c.1500
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2014
Leaf from a manuscript breviary on vellum.
A beautiful vellum leaf from a French Breviary. Written in two columns in bold gothic book hand with four large decorative initials. Includes part of a song from the Cant...
Place & Date: France ca. 1500
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Miniature from a book of hours.
Painted on vellum in gold and colors. From a printed book of hours. The painting shows the visitation of Mary to her cousin Elisabeth, set in a simple landscape.The minia...
Place & Date: Paris early 1500
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Leaf from a Florentine Gradual, on vellum.
Leaf from a Florentine Gradual, on vellum, written in black ink, with 7 and 6 lines of 4-line musical staves.RECTO:Two large initials in red and blue with contrasting pen...
Place & Date: Italy / FLorence ca.1500
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2010
A full-page miniature from a Parisian printed book of hours, on vellum.
A miniature of the nativity of Christ, while angels hoover over the stable announcing the birth to the shepherds, who left their flocks of sheep in the field. They are ...
Place & Date: Paris / France ca. 1500
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2015
Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late Gothic hand.
RECTO: One 2-line initial D in burnished gold on a red and blue ground and 2 line-fillers on a red and blue ground.VERSO: 17 Lines of text, initials filled in with yellow...
Place & Date: France / Flanders c.1500
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Manuscript leaf on vellum written in a late Gothic hand.
RECTO: One 2-line initial D in burnished gold on a red and blue ground.VERSO: 17 Lines of text, initials filled in with yellow. One 2-line initial "D" in burnis...
Place & Date: France / Flanders c.1500
Selling price: $230
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Miniature of St Michaels Victory over the Devil, cut from a larger sheet.
Fine painting on vellum, being a cutted initial D, with inside a depiction "St Michaels Victory over the Devil". A cut from a larger Antiphonal sheet. On verso ...
Place & Date: ca. 1500
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2018
![[Iluminated printed leaf from a devotional medieval book of hours.]](/uploads/cache/48143-250x250.jpg)
[Iluminated printed leaf from a devotional medieval book of hours.]
An attractive fully colored printed leaf from a medieval book of hours. There are two lines of black gothic script on the front, and 28 lines of black gothic script on th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1500
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2022
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers . On the verso very vivid hunting scenes in the side border.In the long series o...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers . On the verso very vivid hunting scenes in the side border.In the long series o...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers. On the verso very vivid hunting scenes. In the long series of Pigouchet-Vostre ...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours, with the dance of deaths.
21 Lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers. Interesting are the 6 panels with skeletons, showing the famous cycle of the â€...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours, with the dance of deaths.
21 Lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers.Interesting are the 6 panels with skeletons, showing the famous cycle of the &qu...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours, with the dance of deaths.
21 Lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers.Interesting are the 6 panels with skeletons, showing the famous cycle of the &qu...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers, . On the verso very vivid hunting scenes. Also on the verso: the beheading of S...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours, with the cycle of the 'dance of deaths'.
21 Lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers.Interesting are the 6 panels with skeletons, showing the famous cycle of the &qu...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours, with the dance of deaths.
21 Lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers.Interesting are the 6 panels with skeletons, showing the famous cycle of the &qu...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers. In the long series of Pigouchet-Vostre Books of Hours, this edition is apparently the ...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers. *The firm of Thielman Kerver is best known for its lovely printed Books of Hour...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers. On the verso very vivid hunting scenes. In the long series of Pigouchet-Vostre ...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers. On the verso very vivid hunting scenes. In the long series of Pigouchet-Vostre ...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours, with the dance of deaths.
21 Lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers.Interesting are the 6 panels with skeletons, showing the famous cycle of the &qu...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours, with the cycle of the dance of deaths.
21 Lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers.Interesting are the 6 panels with skeletons, showing the famous cycle of the &qu...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014