Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1st January 1885
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/37
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Queen, the wife of Ferdinand of Aragon; rather than either of her daughters. Two of the pictures look like portraits; one— Saint Barbara—I will not venture to identify, but the other— Sait Catherine —is almost certainly the Portrait of Doha ~ Juana when she was about twenty years of age, to judge from the authentic likeness given in Carderera’s Inconografia. The first may be that of Margaret of Austria ‘la gente Demoiselle,” -who had many artists in her service, and who may have been the real begetter of this beautiful little MS., on account of her brother Philip. Independently of the y y united by a cordon in different places, there are 1n some of the borders groups of letters, used apparently for the most part as mere ornament, but sometimes significant. The recurrence several times of the letters YQ YQ, evidently indicates a symbol in imitation of the QV, which we know was used by Philip of Austria as his motto (Qui voudra). 26824 LIBER MISSALIS, SECUNDUM CONSUETU- DINEM SEDIS VALENTL2 cum Catenpanrio, large folio, splendid Spanish Manuscript on vellum, jinely wlluninated in gold and colours, the first page of text ornamented with an exquisite Arabesque Border, displaying the arms of the Bishop of Valencia supported by flying Cupids, and a beautiful Miniature, of the Annunciation richly painted in colours and heightened with gold. Betore the Canon of the Mass are two large Paintings (12 by 8 inches) of the Ecck Homo and the Crvuct- FIXION, by an EARLY SPANISH ARTIST, admirably executed in vivid colours heightened with gold; the whole volume in astonishingly perfect preservation, and bound in the original oak boards, covered with stamped morocco, £220. sac, XV (1477) This splendid manuscript was written in the year 1477, as appears from the first leaf of calendar which commences ‘ In hoe Anno Domini m.ccce.lxxvii est littera dominicalis e ut in cruce.”’ Specimens of Spanish art are excessively rare, and the . present. MS. is one so remarkably fine and so brilliantly deco- rated, in the Italian style, which was then followed by the Spaniards, that it would form a specially valuable feature in any palwographical collection. There is, as compared with the Ttalianesque ornamentation, a more distinctive character in the — two large paintings, which are truly imposing works of Art, / somewhat in the Flemish style. The face of the mother in the picture of the Crucifixion is an extremely beautiful composition.
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