LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Antiphonal on vellum

Measurements:

9.45 in. (24.00 cm.) (height) by 6.93 in. (17.60 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

Historiated initial 'P' opening 2 Samuel 1: 17-27, reverse with music and fragments of an antiphon in vespers and an invitatory in matins

Condition:

Mounted on card

Provenance:

Perhaps made for a Dominican convent in Lucca, thence in the Carthusian abbey of Santo Spirito - Lord James Dennistoun of Dennistoun (1805-55), his no 69: purchased in 1838 in Lucca along with 38 other cuttings from the same series of choirbooks. One of these included the arms of Niccolò di Lazzaro Guinigi, archbishop of Lucca in 1394, who was expelled in 1402 and recalled in 1432. It may be that the choirbooks to which the miniatures belonged were produced under his patronage - Herbert Hensley-Henson (1856-1947), Bishop of Durham - Lord Kenneth Clark of Saltwood (1903-1983): his sale, Sotheby's, 3 July 1984, lot 93/1 - Nella Longari: no VII in Una Collezione di Miniature Italiane, I, 1993, pp.41-43.