13. Bathseba, single leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum, large miniature depicting Bathseba, with long golden hair and partly clothed in a sari-like garment leaving her arms, midriff and one breast naked, standing in a stream running though a green field, with King David admiring her from a balcony at the end of his palace, behind which is a hedge and gold fence and a hilly landscape in the distance, in an arched architectural compartment of gold, with below Bathseba, and partly covering her legs a compartment with a large initial ‘D’ in blue and white, decorated in gold and colours, and 6 three-quarter length lines of text, verso with 25 lines of text, in lettre bâtarde, fore-edge margin with a panel border of foliage and flowers in gold and colours, small initials and line-fillers in gold and red or blue, slightly trimmed, touching edges of border, 158 x 108mm., [ ? North France, c. 1480].
est. £1500 – £2000
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