Accession number
MS M.986.1-4
Object title
Four cuttings from a manuscript, possibly a breviary.
Created
France, last quarter of the 14th century.
Credit line
Purchased from Mrs. James H. Ripley, 1978.
Description
4 leaves : vellum, ill.
Provenance
Swann Galleries, New York, sale 1120, Nov. 16, 1978, no. 205.
Notes
Four illuminated vellum cuttings; written and illuminated in France, probably in the south of France, in the last quarter of the fourteenth century.
M.986.1: St. Margaret issuing from the Dragon, in an Initial D. Verso has text. 60 x 63 mm
M.986.2: Carthusian Saint kneeling before a vision of the Man of Sorrows. Verso has text. 65 x 77 mm
M.986.3: Franciscan Saint neeling before a vision of the Man of Sorrows. Verso has text. 60 x 77 mm
M.986.4: Pentecost. Verso has text. 80 x 77 mm
M.986.1: St. Margaret issuing from the Dragon, in an Initial D. Verso has text. 60 x 63 mm
M.986.2: Carthusian Saint kneeling before a vision of the Man of Sorrows. Verso has text. 65 x 77 mm
M.986.3: Franciscan Saint neeling before a vision of the Man of Sorrows. Verso has text. 60 x 77 mm
M.986.4: Pentecost. Verso has text. 80 x 77 mm
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