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1049 - Large painted initial "S" depicting a man praying to St. Gatian, from an important choirbook in Latin. [Central France, c. 1480] 21.2 x 23.8 cm (visible), 15 x 15 cm (large central scene), vellum, painted, highlighted with burnished gold, large floral border. Mounted under passe-partout and framed. Excellent condition. A spectacular, high-quality miniature depicting, within an architectural setting, a priest in a white robe on a prie-dieu covered with a blue cloth bearing the coat of arms of the House of Nevers (azure, strewn with gold billets; a lion of the same, armed and langued gules, overall), kneeling before St. Gatian, the first bishop of Tours. A banner bears the acclamation “Ora pro nobis beate Gatiane.”
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Large painted initial "S" depicting a man praying to St. Gatian, from an important choirbook in Latin. [Central France, c. 1480] 21.2 x 23.8 cm (visible), 15 x 15 cm (large central scene), vellum, painted, highlighted with burnished gold, large floral border. Mounted under passe-partout and framed. Excellent condition. A spectacular, high-quality miniature depicting, within an architectural setting, a priest in a white robe on a prie-dieu covered with a blue cloth bearing the coat of arms of the House of Nevers (azure, strewn with gold billets; a lion of the same, armed and langued gules, overall), kneeling before St. Gatian, the first bishop of Tours. A banner bears the acclamation “Ora pro nobis beate Gatiane.”
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