Current Location: In storage
Titles
Miniature from a Psalter
Maker(s)
Illuminator:
Brailes, William de
Scribe:
Brailes, William de
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Description
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, miniature including corner medallions 213 x 135 mm (frame excluding medallions 194 x 117 mm), inlaid in a modern parchment leaf 250 x 170 mm
DECORATION: Full-page miniature on gold ground ornamented with incised patterns, punched dots and red painted dots, featuring two mandorlas on a red diapered ground, with blue inner frame ornamented in black with red dots, and gold outer frame outlined in black: Christ in Majesty (above) enthroned, trampling on a lion and a dragon, surrounded by Evangelists’ symbols in medallions: seated angel with scroll MATHEUS, eagle with scroll IOHANES, lion with scroll M[A]RCUS and ox with scroll LUCAS, and King David (below) enthroned, playing the harp, accompanied by two musicians (one with a viol and the other a psaltery), depicted in two medallions in the lower border.
Notes
History note: Provenance note: Joseph-Baptiste Barrois (1784-1855); Bertram, fourth earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); Bertram, fifth earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10-14 June 1901, Barrois collection, lot 404; purchased by Quaritch; George C. Thomas of Philadelphia; Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952); purchased from him by Sydney Cockerell in 1920 for Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7 June 1932, lot 11; withdrawn before the sale at Sydney Cockerell’s initiative and purchased for the Museum by the National Art Collections Fund in 1932.
Legal notes
Purchased from Alfred Chester Beatty, through the National Art Collections Fund
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