Null [ENLUMINURE]. [CHOIR BOOK].
Set of 5 ornate initials from a choir book.
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[ENLUMINURE]. [CHOIR BOOK]. Set of 5 ornate initials from a choir book. Music notated square on drypoint staves and a red line. Tempera and ink on parchment. France (?), late 12th century (?) Initial D, dimensions: 97 x 105 mm; Initial Q, dimensions: 108 x 110 mm; Initial E, dimensions: 75 x 85 mm; Initial I, dimensions: 70 x 154 mm; Initial H, dimensions: 105 x 142 mm Good condition, some traces of glue on the back. These initials come from a choir book (most likely an antiphonary) that betrays a minimalist Cistercian aesthetic, but with a profusion of blue pen-and-ink decoration that enhances the soberly decorated monochrome red initials. The decoration recalls certain manuscripts painted for Pontigny Abbey (Yonne), see for example the initials of a manuscript by Bede the Venerable (circa 1164-1166) (Auxerre, BM, MS 14). Expert: Ariane Adeline

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[ENLUMINURE]. [CHOIR BOOK]. Set of 5 ornate initials from a choir book. Music notated square on drypoint staves and a red line. Tempera and ink on parchment. France (?), late 12th century (?) Initial D, dimensions: 97 x 105 mm; Initial Q, dimensions: 108 x 110 mm; Initial E, dimensions: 75 x 85 mm; Initial I, dimensions: 70 x 154 mm; Initial H, dimensions: 105 x 142 mm Good condition, some traces of glue on the back. These initials come from a choir book (most likely an antiphonary) that betrays a minimalist Cistercian aesthetic, but with a profusion of blue pen-and-ink decoration that enhances the soberly decorated monochrome red initials. The decoration recalls certain manuscripts painted for Pontigny Abbey (Yonne), see for example the initials of a manuscript by Bede the Venerable (circa 1164-1166) (Auxerre, BM, MS 14). Expert: Ariane Adeline

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[ENLUMINURE]. Fragment of a choir book (Gradual or Antiphonary?) Historiated Q initial Adoration of the shepherds France, Paris, circa 1530-1540 Anonymous illuminator influenced by the Groupe Etienne Colaud (?) (active in Paris from 1512 to circa 1540) Dimensions: 152 x 170 mm Illumination mounted on a cardboard base, framed in ink and marked "Peinture sur vélin" (size of cardboard base: 186 x 202 mm). This handsome historiated initial can be traced back to the 1520s-1540s. The historiated initial is inscribed in a blue lettering with white highlights, set against a liquid gold background and decorated with vine leaves and floral motifs. This type of motif is found in an Evangeliary preserved at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, MS 106, and is associated with the Colaud group and possibly with an artist known in the archives as Jean Leclerc (?), a collaborator of Etienne Colaud (see M.-B. Cousseau, Enlumineur anonyme (Jean Leclerc?), in Enluminures du Louvre (2011), cat. 127). In some respects, the present illumination recalls the work of an artist identified as Martial Vaillant, son-in-law of Etienne Colaud, documented in Paris since 1523 (he was one of the governors of the Confrérie des Enlumineurs Saint-Jean l'Evangéliste), painter of a Book of Hours for the Dauphin François (Paris, BnF, NAL 104, Heures peintes en deux campagnes, l'une dans les années 1530 et l'autre plus tard dans les années 1550 pour les encadrement ; see M.-B. Cousseau, Etienne Colaud et l'enluminure parisienne sous le règne de François Ier (2016), pp. 87-91). Further research is needed to better identify the illuminator of this initial, which also shows influences from the major artist of these decades, namely Noël Bellemare, whose compositions influenced the artists of the "Colaud group". Expert: Ariane ADELINE

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