Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Lithograph - Original French antique print
- Publisher: Librairie de Firmin Didot, Paris, Rue Jacob 56, 1885-1887.
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Dimensions: 11 x 15.5 inches (28 x 40 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Notes: 1.
Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background
on which the print was photographed. 2. Detail of the print is sharper than the photo of the print. 3. A hard copy of the legend key (2nd picture) is NOT included.
Legend to the illustrations:
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The fragments depicted in this plate were designed by celebrated
illuminator Attavante and taken from the celebrated Manuscript in the
Library of Saint Mark at Venice. An imitator of Bartolomeo della Gatta,
he was employed by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, for whom he
executed a missal, now in the Royal Library at Brussels. There is
another breviary by him in the National Library at Paris, executed in
the manner of the Domenico Ghirlandaio. Other missals in Florence and
Rome are also ascribed to him. Attavante, who was a miniature painter
of great merit, worked at Florence towards the close of the 15th
century.
1. Vertical panel n° 1, with an alternately red and
blue ground beneath golden scrolls goes together with n° 19 of the
present plate, which has a blue ground with golden scrolls, and with
initial n° 8, the ground of which is green and damasked. 2. Vertical
panel n° 2, with golden scrolls on a blue and gold ground is on the
same page as n° 11, which has a gold ground and ornamental foliage in
black and white. 3. Vertical panel n° 3, with a blue and gold ground,
and blue scrolls goes together with n° 4, which has green scrolls on a
red ground, and with the fragment of the vertical panel n° 1, with
foliage in black and white on a green ground. 4. Vertical panel n” 4
with its blue and red ground and golden scrolls is on the same page as
n° 21, which also has golden scrollwork but on a blue ground only, and
with initial n” 7, which has a red ground beneath golden foliated
scrolls. 5. Finally, vertical panel n° 5, which has foliated scrolls in
black and white against a gold ground, as does its small side n° 6, is
from the same ornamental frame as n° 3, with black and white scrollwork
on a blue ground. Vertical panel fragment n° 18, with a blue ground and
black and white foliage is from the same border as n° 17, which has a
green background and golden scrollwork, as is the initial n° 9 with its
gold background and foliated black and white scrolls. 4 The small
running borders shown as n° 2, 5, 16 and 20 are repeating motifs used
to fill in areas where there is no relief, similar to the ground of the
initial n° 8.
The illustrations in this print are appr. 1/5th of their original size.
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