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Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Pisa, 1330-1340], later half calf

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Missal, in Latin

Illuminated manuscript on vellum [Italy (Pisa), 1330-1340]

275 x 195mm., i (paper) + II + 130 + I + i (paper), collation: i–iv12 (1–48), v12–1 (49–58, 60), vi–xi12 (121–131, + blank end-leaf), catchwords and quire signatures, original foliation in red ink 1–58, 60–130 (f. 59 removed before 1928, leaving an offset on f. 58v), written in a single column of 16 lines, 190×120mm, music on three red staves, 70mm., OPENING PAGE WITH FULL-PAGE HISTORIATED INITIAL AND FULL BORDER (f. 1r), ONE LARGE INHABITED INITIAL WITH FULL BORDER (f. 25r), ONE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL (f. 30v) and ONE LARGE MINIATURE (f. 31v), numerous other large illuminated initials (f. 1r, 4v, 7v, 9v, 12r, 13v, 16v, 19r, 22r, 38v, 41v, 45r, 46v, 49r, 51v, 54v, 56v, 61r, 64v, 67v, 70v, 73v, 79r, 80v, 82r, 84v, 87r, 89r), and smaller flourished initials throughout, overall in good condition, preserving the pricking in outer margins, bound in 19th-century half leather binding, scuffed, in a box

PROVENANCE

1) Made for the AUGUSTINIAN CONVENT OF SAN NICOLA IN PISA, as shown by the Mass in honour of St Nicholas the bishop and confessor (fol. 111), the only Mass in honour of a saint

2) U. Hoepli, Manoscritti, Miniature, Incunabuli..., Milan, 3-4 May 1928, lot 178 (reproduced as the colour frontispiece), bought for 50,600 lire by:

(3) Sig. Conte Gr(?) Sola Cabiati, Milan; notified as "un piccolo messale sienese miniato della IIa metà del secolo XIV" on 27 January 1986;

(4) Purchased in Milan, 15 January 1988, for 80,000,000 lire, and subsequently inherited by the current owner

ILLUMINATION

Cristina de Benedictis (see Bibliography) associates the Missal with the most important Pisan scriptorium of the first half of the fourteenth century, that of the Brevario Strozzi 11 (Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana). The poignant compositional voluptuousness and the insistent physiognomic accentuation of the characters reveal considerable affinities with a group of choirbooks now preserved in the Museo nazionale di Pisa. These codices, labelled A, B, D, E, all come from the Convent of S. Nicola, at the time located near to the Benedictine monastery of S. Stefano, for which the Breviario Laurenziano was originally written. The Corali di S. Nicola, which can be attributed to the emerging personality known as Maestro dei Cartigli, which are distinguished from those belonging to the Brevario Strozzi 11 by the extensive and crowded compositions, attentive to the definition of space as well as to the decorative elements shaped in a narrative function, have been related to the early activity of Francesco Traini.

The subjects of the miniatures are:

1) Nativity, f. 1r
2) Crown of thorns, f. 25v
3) Christ enthroned, f. 30v
4) Crucifixion, f. 31v

LITERATURE

C. de Benedictis, "Sullo scriptorium pisano del Brevario Strozzi 11", in La miniatura italiana in età romanica e gotica, edited by G. Vailati Schoenburg Waldenburg (Florence, 1979), 489-499, particularly pp.495-497, fig. 6 and 7

PLEASE NOTE

Opera dichiarata di importante interesse dalla Soprintendenza Archivistica e Bibliografica della Toscana mediante il rinnovo del provvedimento in data 1/6/2021, successivo al rinnovo n. 18430 /1988 emesso dalla Regione Lombardia in data 7/9/1988.

Il lotto non può essere esportato e deve rimanere in Italia.

The Italian Soprintendenza considers this lot to be a work of national importance and requires it to remain in Italy, it cannot therefore be exported from Italy.

The work was declared of important interest by the Soprintendenza Archivistica e Bibliografica of Tuscany through the renewal of the provision on 1/6/2021 following renewal no. 18430/1988 issued by the Lombardy Region on 7/9/1988.

Condition Report:
Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate

Please note: Condition 11 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot. (Si prega di notare che l'articolo 11 delle Condizioni Generali di Vendita (Online Only) non è applicabile per questo lotto)

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Missal, in Latin

Illuminated manuscript on vellum [Italy (Pisa), 1330-1340]

275 x 195mm., i (paper) + II + 130 + I + i (paper), collation: i–iv12 (1–48), v12–1 (49–58, 60), vi–xi12 (121–131, + blank end-leaf), catchwords and quire signatures, original foliation in red ink 1–58, 60–130 (f. 59 removed before 1928, leaving an offset on f. 58v), written in a single column of 16 lines, 190×120mm, music on three red staves, 70mm., OPENING PAGE WITH FULL-PAGE HISTORIATED INITIAL AND FULL BORDER (f. 1r), ONE LARGE INHABITED INITIAL WITH FULL BORDER (f. 25r), ONE LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL (f. 30v) and ONE LARGE MINIATURE (f. 31v), numerous other large illuminated initials (f. 1r, 4v, 7v, 9v, 12r, 13v, 16v, 19r, 22r, 38v, 41v, 45r, 46v, 49r, 51v, 54v, 56v, 61r, 64v, 67v, 70v, 73v, 79r, 80v, 82r, 84v, 87r, 89r), and smaller flourished initials throughout, overall in good condition, preserving the pricking in outer margins, bound in 19th-century half leather binding, scuffed, in a box

PROVENANCE

1) Made for the AUGUSTINIAN CONVENT OF SAN NICOLA IN PISA, as shown by the Mass in honour of St Nicholas the bishop and confessor (fol. 111), the only Mass in honour of a saint

2) U. Hoepli, Manoscritti, Miniature, Incunabuli..., Milan, 3-4 May 1928, lot 178 (reproduced as the colour frontispiece), bought for 50,600 lire by:

(3) Sig. Conte Gr(?) Sola Cabiati, Milan; notified as "un piccolo messale sienese miniato della IIa metà del secolo XIV" on 27 January 1986;

(4) Purchased in Milan, 15 January 1988, for 80,000,000 lire, and subsequently inherited by the current owner

ILLUMINATION

Cristina de Benedictis (see Bibliography) associates the Missal with the most important Pisan scriptorium of the first half of the fourteenth century, that of the Brevario Strozzi 11 (Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana). The poignant compositional voluptuousness and the insistent physiognomic accentuation of the characters reveal considerable affinities with a group of choirbooks now preserved in the Museo nazionale di Pisa. These codices, labelled A, B, D, E, all come from the Convent of S. Nicola, at the time located near to the Benedictine monastery of S. Stefano, for which the Breviario Laurenziano was originally written. The Corali di S. Nicola, which can be attributed to the emerging personality known as Maestro dei Cartigli, which are distinguished from those belonging to the Brevario Strozzi 11 by the extensive and crowded compositions, attentive to the definition of space as well as to the decorative elements shaped in a narrative function, have been related to the early activity of Francesco Traini.

The subjects of the miniatures are:

1) Nativity, f. 1r
2) Crown of thorns, f. 25v
3) Christ enthroned, f. 30v
4) Crucifixion, f. 31v

LITERATURE

C. de Benedictis, "Sullo scriptorium pisano del Brevario Strozzi 11", in La miniatura italiana in età romanica e gotica, edited by G. Vailati Schoenburg Waldenburg (Florence, 1979), 489-499, particularly pp.495-497, fig. 6 and 7

PLEASE NOTE

Opera dichiarata di importante interesse dalla Soprintendenza Archivistica e Bibliografica della Toscana mediante il rinnovo del provvedimento in data 1/6/2021, successivo al rinnovo n. 18430 /1988 emesso dalla Regione Lombardia in data 7/9/1988.

Il lotto non può essere esportato e deve rimanere in Italia.

The Italian Soprintendenza considers this lot to be a work of national importance and requires it to remain in Italy, it cannot therefore be exported from Italy.

The work was declared of important interest by the Soprintendenza Archivistica e Bibliografica of Tuscany through the renewal of the provision on 1/6/2021 following renewal no. 18430/1988 issued by the Lombardy Region on 7/9/1988.

Condition Report:
Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate

Please note: Condition 11 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers (Online Only) is not applicable to this lot. (Si prega di notare che l'articolo 11 delle Condizioni Generali di Vendita (Online Only) non è applicabile per questo lotto)

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