Fifteenth Report: 1 item, 1 lot

Thursday 7 November 2019

Report 15

1 lot, 1 item

London: Bloomsbury Auctions, sale no. 14223, Tuesday 3 December 2019.

[1] 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.