![]() ![]() In each instance, the fold is approximately 10 mm from one of the edges of the strip. All the other strips ranged in width from 153 to 160 mm, and their use as binding material is manifest from the evidence of former folds, the presence of sewing holes along those folds, the shape of the loss near the center of leaf 1, and the presence of offsets. This piece, which would have been about 200 mm wide, may have been discarded rather than having been used as binding material. Leaf 2 was cut horizontally into five strips, the bottom of which is lost. The central one of the remaining three is now in two pieces due to a subsequent loss. (2) Leaf 1 was cut vertically into four strips one piece, a strip of less than 20 mm, appears to have been lost from the fore-edge. » We are grateful to Roger de Kesel, who found the catalogue of the Bernard de Tracy sale for us. Still more, but probably smaller, fragments may have been included in lot 282a : « Enveloppe contenant plusieurs fragments de miniatures anciennes. ![]() » The similarity of the descriptions of the three sequential lots, all identified as coming from a ninth-century gospel book, suggests that the cutting may have formed a group with the Getty leaves. » Lot 281 is described as an « Initiale enluminée tirée d'un évangéliaire du ixe siècle, sur parchemin. Sujet : Jésus, accompagné de ses disciples, chasse les démons du corps d'un possédé. 280 Fragment (incomplet) d'une miniature tirée d'un évangéliaire du ixe siècle. Feuillet (incomplet) tiré d'un évangéliaire du ixe siècle donnant à l'avers une miniature à 2 sujets représentant Jésus ordonnant à l'apôtre Pierre de payer le tribut, au revers : le sermon sur la montagne. ![]() The catalogue of the April 21-22 sale lists the Getty leaves as lots 279 and 280 : « 279 MINIATURE. The leaves first appeared in 1952, when the collection of Henry Bernard de Tracy was sold in Ghent. (1) It is possible that a third fragment survived into this century. ![]()
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