Accession number
MS M.1043.1-2
Object title
Four miniatures from an Apocalypse (MS M.1043.1-2).
Display Date
1290-1299.
Created
France, probably Lorraine, 1290-1299.
Credit line
M.1043.1 Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Catherine Mellon Conover, Mrs. H.J. Heinz, II, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Pirie, 1983
Description
2 leaves : vellum, ill.
Provenance
Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt; his descendents; their sale, London, Sotheby's, Apr. 25, 1983, lots 51, 67; H.P. Kraus, New York.
Notes
Ms. Bible leaves (cuttings); written and illuminated in eastern France, probably Lorraine, last decade of the 13th century.
These four miniatures, another four in the Pierpont Morgan Library (M.1071.1-2), and sixty-eight others were excised from one manuscript for insertion into an album of cuttings made for the Basel silk merchant Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt (1752-1819).
Two leaves (cuttings), painted on recto and verso.
Decoration: 4 half-page miniatures; French Gothic style.
M.1043.1 was fols. 25r and 25v in the original foliation.
M.1043.2 was fols. 49r and 49v in the original foliation
These four miniatures, another four in the Pierpont Morgan Library (M.1071.1-2), and sixty-eight others were excised from one manuscript for insertion into an album of cuttings made for the Basel silk merchant Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt (1752-1819).
Two leaves (cuttings), painted on recto and verso.
Decoration: 4 half-page miniatures; French Gothic style.
M.1043.1 was fols. 25r and 25v in the original foliation.
M.1043.2 was fols. 49r and 49v in the original foliation
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