Thursday 7 November 2019
Report 15
1
lot, 1 item
London:
Bloomsbury Auctions, sale no. 14223, Tuesday 3 December 2019.
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Lot 41
Trimmed
miniature cut from the Gradual of Fernando and Isabel, depicting Gideon and the
Fleece; Castile, prob. c.1482-1492.
The
MS from which this was cut is well known, and was attributed by J. Domínguez
Bordona to the illuminator Juan de Carrión; from the monastery of St Thomas
Aquinas in Avila to which it was presented by the Catholic Monarchs, during the
s.XIX it passed into the possession of Manuel Rico y Sinobas who dismembered
it. The catalogue illustrates the miniature and usefully lists other fragments
known in collections and at auctions.
Estimate:
£800-1200.
MIMSS
Catalogue Number: LB2019120300410058.
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