Biblia latina - VT - Esdras. Published by [Austria or Germany, ]. GmbH , Vienna, A, Austria. Contact seller. Used - Hardcover. From Austria to U. Quantity: 1 available. Folio x mm. Single leaf. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Two columns of gothic script with large illuminated capital, large blue initial, rubricated titles and sections, and inked marginal decoration. Bound into modern cream cloth x mm. Overflowing with gold, King Cyrus directs the construction of the Temple of Jerusalem in this elaborately illuminated initial from the leaf of a Latin Bible, ca.
It is dominated by this flamboyant and unusual scene of Cyrus flanked by councillors, and features four more roundels of gilt in the margins a little inked heron perches upon one with distinctive inked marginal decorations of the late 15th and early 16th century.
The product of skilled craftspeople, both the illuminated scene and the gothic bookhand are very fine, on high quality vellum. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey. This corresponds to the Ferrini catalogue's attribution of this leaf to Augsburg; Ferrini also drew comparisons to the work of the illuminator Leonhard Beck and scribe Leonhard Wagner.
Stylistically, its palette of pinks, greens, blues, and stocky but animated figures does suggest an origin in the German-speaking principalities at the dawn of the 16th century. Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg. Otto F. Ege ; No.
Bruce Ferrini , inscribed in pencil with his stock number 'VM '. Schoyen Collection, MS , with bookplate. Published by Qing China, perhaps Yunnan or Gansu, ca. Arabic manuscript on paper. Black Sini script in five lines, double-ruled in red, with some diacritics picked out in red. Verse markers and Surah titles are on fields of gold gilt, with Surah titles picked out in jade green; opening and closing bifolia are thickly bordered in gold, with multicolored designs, and Chinese knots in the margins.
