De Graflegging - L'Enterrement - The EntombmentbyGetijdenboek Brugge Ca. 1440.
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Category: Medieval manuscripts > Miniature
Arch-topped miniature with full-page borders, illuminated with burnished and liquid gold. Bruges, Masters of the Gold Scrolls, c. 1440.
The accompanying leaf is the opening leaf of the compline with a large illuminated initial in burnished gold and with full-page borders (the middle of the right border erased).
Painted on vellum.
Page size: 9.5 x 6.5cm, miniature, including decorated border: 8 x 6 cm.
This miniature comes from a Book of Hours made by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, a group of illuminators who dominated Bruges book illumination from about 1410 to 1450, drawing on Parisian miniature and border conventions. Their work is distinguished by the gold patterned background that gives them their name, seen on specific miniatures.