Accession number:
MS M.1043.1-2
Title:
Apocalypse
Created:
France, probably Lorraine, 1290-1299.
Credit:
M.1043.1 Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Catherine Mellon Conover, Mrs. H.J. Heinz, II, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Pirie, 1983
Description:
2 leaves : vellum, ill.
Provenance:
Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt; his descendents; their sale, London, Sotheby's, Apr. 25, 1983, lots 51, 67; H.P. Kraus, New York.
Notes:
Ms. Bible leaves (cuttings); written and illuminated in eastern France, probably Lorraine, last decade of the 13th century.
These four miniatures, another four in the Pierpont Morgan Library (M.1071.1-2), and sixty-eight others were excised from one manuscript for insertion into an album of cuttings made for the Basel silk merchant Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt (1752-1819).
Two leaves (cuttings), painted on recto and verso.
Decoration: 4 half-page miniatures; French Gothic style.
M.1043.1 was fols. 25r and 25v in the original foliation.
M.1043.2 was fols. 49r and 49v in the original foliation
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