Beautiful, Colorful, and Gilt
Illuminated Leaf of Clement Marot's Psalm 79, from mid- 16th century French Psalter.
France: c.1550.
Price: $850.00
About the item
Manuscript leaf on parchment, one column, 18 lines in a humanist miniscule script, capitals beginning the verse in gilt on red and blue in alternating sections, with colored ornamental line fillers in gilt. Octavo (155 x 105 mm). Beautiful, Colorful, and Gilt. Matted. Fine.
Item #300728
Beautifully illuminated leaf from a mid to late sixteenth century psalter, the text in a clear humanist hand, with bold colorful line fillers following the psalm translations of Clement Marot in red, yellow, blue, and green gilded in superb ornamental designs. The brilliant gold continues in the ruling and the borders.
An attractive late manuscript leaf, but an early extract from the Psalm poems of Marot. This psalm a lament over the Destruction of Jerusalem.