Master of Philippe de Gueldres
(Paris, active c. 1500-1510)
Resurrection (280 x 186 mm.)
France, Paris, c. 1500-1510

This monumental initial “R” includes arms in the lower margin, held by two angels, which are those of the famous abbey of St.-Victor. Founded in 1113 and frequently patronized by Louis XI and Anne of Brittany, the royal Abbey of St.-Victor possessed an important library dispersed after the dissolution of the monastery. The medieval library of St.-Victor is preserved virtually intact at several institutions in Paris, but most of the Renaissance liturgical books are lost. Working in Paris in the first decade of the sixteenth century, the Master of Philippe de Gueldres e was regularly employed by Antoine Vérard for the illustration of printed books, as well as by certain high-born princesses.
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