LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Miniature

Measurements:

4.33 in. (11.00 cm.) (height) by 5.16 in. (13.10 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

Verso with two lines of text and music

Condition:

Double-sided mount; (smudge and loss of pigment to landscape and Adam's body, minor losses to foliage)

Provenance:

Provenance: One of nineteen surviving cuttings identified by Gaudenz Freuler as belonging to a now dismembered luxury Antiphonal volume produced in Florence in the 1360s. Fourteen are at the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett; one is in Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection MS 6115; three others are in private collections - Dr Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum, Mediaeval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts; A Loan Exhibition, November 25, 1953-January 9, 1954, no 119 Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1953 - Jörn Günther, Mittelalterliche Handschriften und Miniaturen, 1995, no 36.