Ian Ehling
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT: SECOND EPISTLE OF PETER. Being a single leaf from a manuscript Bible, the Second Epistle of Peter. Paris: C.1275.
11 December 2020, 10:00 EST
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT: SECOND EPISTLE OF PETER.
Being a single leaf from a manuscript Bible, the Second Epistle of Peter. Paris: C.1275. Folio (248 x 152 mm). Four-line historiated initial "S" in colors and gold depicting St. Peter, 55 lines of text in Gothic book hand, capitals struck with red, rubrics in red, chapter numbers and headlines in red and blue, four prominent chapter initials in red or blue with elaborate penwork in the same two colors. Matted. Small marginal hole, short tear at one edge, minor soiling and creasing.
This leaf has illumination in the style of the Grusch Atelier, a group of 10 or 12 artists who take their name from the canon who copied one of their Bibles in 1246. At work in Paris for about 35 years, beginning in the late 1230s, the group produced some 39 manuscripts known to Robert Branner (Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis, pp 82-86, and illustrations 212-43).
This leaf has illumination in the style of the Grusch Atelier, a group of 10 or 12 artists who take their name from the canon who copied one of their Bibles in 1246. At work in Paris for about 35 years, beginning in the late 1230s, the group produced some 39 manuscripts known to Robert Branner (Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis, pp 82-86, and illustrations 212-43).