Lot 109* - A174 Collection d'enluminures italiennes - vendredi, 18. septembre 2015, 13h30

ROMAN BOOK ILLUMINATOR FROM THE LATE 13TH CENTURY. Leaf from a missal with a large historiated initial I with Mary Magdalene anointing the feet of Christ. Vellum. Rome, ca. 1290-1295. 310 x 220 mm. With a further small illuminated initial I with the Prophet Jesaias, verso with an initial I with a tonsured monk Provenance: - Rom, Basilica di Santa Prassede (?). - 2004, Hamburg, Jörn Günther. - 2004, Swiss private collection. - Since 2008 in the current collection. Bibliography: Friedrich G. Zeileis, Più ridon le carte (3.ed.), Rauris 2014, pp. 266-268. Further cited literature: - François Avril, Marie-Therèse Gousset, Bibliothèque Nationale Paris, Manuscrits Enluminés d' origine Italienne, 2, XIII siècle, Paris 1984, p. 135. - William M.Voelkle, Roger S. Wieck, The Bernard Breslauer Collection of Art. Manuscript Illuminations, New York 1992, pp.161-163. The present leaf is part of a dismantled missal, of which three further sister leavess are known to exist. For certain stylistic reasons it is difficult to classify these leaves in art historical terms. There are good reasons to suppose that these missal leaves were executed in Rome around 1290-95, by a workshop of illuminators in the city, perhaps at the beginning of the papacy of Bonifatius VIII (1294).

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