Cutting from a choir book

Franco dei Russi

1470s

Tempera and gold, Tempera, Gold

J. Paul Getty Museum

The Adoration of the Magi is depicted within an illuminated manuscript initial. A star shines above a city in the background, and a procession of figures on horseback travels towards it. The Adoration of the Magi is depicted within an illuminated manuscript initial. A star shines above a city in the background, and a procession of figures on horseback travels towards it. Sotheby's, New York. Fine Books and Manuscripts. December 14, 1983, unpaginated, lot 89, ill. Voelkle, William M., and Roger S. Wieck, et al. The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, exh. cat. (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1992), pp. 16, 51, 204, no.79, ill.