
Accession number
MS M.1177
Object title
Stigmatization of St. Francis from the Belluno Gradual (MS M.1177).
Display Date
1489.
Created
Cremona, Italy, 1489.
Credit line
Purchased on funds from the Frances L. Koltun Bequest, 2011.
Description
1 bifolio (fol. LXIII and fol. LXVIII) : vellum, ill. ; 570 x 410 mm
Provenance
The parent codex: according to its colophon ("Hoc opus scriptum notatum ac miniatum fuit penna et pennello Cremone. per me Ludovicum de gaçis civem Cremonensem. Cuius operis institutor fuit R[evere]ndus p[ate]r Sacre Theologie professor Magist[er] Franciscus de Bolzano ordinis minor[um] pro usu conventus cividalis Bellone. 1.4.8.9. Die X⁰ Aprilis"), the so-called Belluno Gradual was commissioned by the Reverend Father Franciscus de Bolzano of the minorite [Franciscan] order and professor of Sacred Theology, for the [Franciscan] convent of San Pietro at Belluno [about 65 miles north of Venice] at Cremona from Lodovico de Gacis, citizen of Cremona, by whom the work was written, provided with music, and decorated with pen and brush, 10 April 1489; the princes of Stolberg-Wernigerode, at Schloss Wernigerode (their codex 40), until the late nineteenth century; Kurt Arnhold (1887-1951) (his MS 36); sold to New York, Kraus and Schab; New York, H.P. Kraus, Catalogue 88, [1958], no. 46; bought by Mark Lansburgh (1925-2013), originally Santa Barbara, later Colorado Springs, in 1959 (de Ricci Supplement, 1962, 25, no. 5); the codex was dismembered by 1969. This leaf: New York, Inman's Book Shop, Catalogue no. 110 (Illuminated Manuscript Leaves on Vellum from an Italian 15th Century Gradual Written and Illuminated by Ludovicum de Gacis at Cremona, 1489), [1969], no. 11; Ladislaus Von Hoffmann, Washington, D.C.; his sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 2011 (The Arcana Collection: Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts, Part III), lot 6; bought by the Morgan.
Notes
The Morgan's historiated initial of St. Francis is one of thirteen originally in the parent codex. The Morgan also has the frontispiece of this gradual, an initial D with St. Andrew, MS m. 1181. A leaf with an initial of Sts. Peter and Paul is today in Washington, National Gallery of Art, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Carra Ferguson et al., Medieval & Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975, 84-87, no. 24). The initial I with St. Anthony of Padua and a Franciscan friar, fol. 27, sold at Christie's, London, June 29, 1994, lot 21.
Texts: Folio LXIIIr-v: end of the Feast of the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel (September 29) and beginning of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (October 4) [The "Gaudeamus" Introit, not used in today's liturgy, can be found in such fifteenth-century Missals as Morgan's MS M.374, f. 144, and MS M.95, f. 236v]. Folio LXVIIIr-v: end of the Feast of St. Martin of Tours (November 11), Feast of St. Cecilia (November 22), Feast of St. Clement (November 23), and rubric for a Mass against Plague.
Scribe: Ludovico de Gacis.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial (Stigmatization of St. Francis) and 1 historiated border.
Artist: collaborator of Ludovico de Gacis (Thieme/Becker, XIII, 23; D'Ancona-Aeschlimann, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes, 1949, 81; Bollati, Dizionario, 2004, 248-51).
Revised: 2017
Texts: Folio LXIIIr-v: end of the Feast of the Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel (September 29) and beginning of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (October 4) [The "Gaudeamus" Introit, not used in today's liturgy, can be found in such fifteenth-century Missals as Morgan's MS M.374, f. 144, and MS M.95, f. 236v]. Folio LXVIIIr-v: end of the Feast of St. Martin of Tours (November 11), Feast of St. Cecilia (November 22), Feast of St. Clement (November 23), and rubric for a Mass against Plague.
Scribe: Ludovico de Gacis.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial (Stigmatization of St. Francis) and 1 historiated border.
Artist: collaborator of Ludovico de Gacis (Thieme/Becker, XIII, 23; D'Ancona-Aeschlimann, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes, 1949, 81; Bollati, Dizionario, 2004, 248-51).
Revised: 2017
Script
Littera gothica textualis rotunda italiana (Italian Gothic book script)
Language
Latin
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