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‡ Leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, manuscript (Italy, 15th century)

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‡ Leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, manuscript (Italy, 15th century)

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Description

‡ Leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, with two historiated initials, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Italy (Ferrara), 1441-48]

Single leaf with double column of 30 lines of a rounded late gothic bookhand (text for Feasts of SS. Praxedes [Matins, lessons 1-3] and Mary Magdalene [1st Vespers-Matins, lesson 2]), capitals touched in yellow wash, red rubrics with ornamental line fillers in same pen, one-line initials in blue or liquid gold with contrasting penwork, 2-line initials in burnished gold on blue or burgundy grounds, these grounds with fine white penwork tracery, one historiated initial on recto in coloured acanthus leaves, enclosing Mary Magdalene as a half-length portrait of a crowned woman holding a gold cross, all before vivid blue grounds edged in hairline white penwork, the whole initial on burnished gold grounds with notched edges, accompanied by two bar-borders of gold and blue or burgundy with acanthus leaf swirls at midpoints ad explosions of fine rinceaux foliage with fleshy coloured leaves and gold bezants at head and foot, another historiated initial on verso in same, enclosing St. Augustine as a half-length portrait of a bearded man, this initial on square burnished gold grounds, and accompanied by similar border decorations as before, but here with use of wider outer margin the illuminator has added fuller sprays of acanthus leaves and other foliate embellishment on the outermost side of the first column, very slight corrosion to paint of cheek of Mary Magdalene, leaf trimmed at outer upright edge with approximately 2mm. from edge of border decoration at midpoint removed there, faint yellow stains at extreme head and foot from old mounting, else in outstandingly fresh condition, 265 by 194mm.

One of the finest leaves to survive from this splendid renaissance codex

Provenance:
1. This leaf comes from a parent manuscript now identified as a breviary produced for the use of Leonello d'Este (1407-50), marquis and then duke of Ferrara, by a team of artists lead by Giorgio d'Alemagna (see F. Toniolo, La miniatura a Ferrara dal tempo di CosmÃ¨ Tura all'ereditÃ di Ercole de' Roberti, 1998, pp. 19, 20, 76-77; and D.T. Cashion in The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscript Paintings, 2021, no. 32, where a handlist records 108 leaves from the parent manuscript).

2. John Rolls (1870-1916), 2nd Baron Llangattock, with inscriptions in the parent volume recording his family's acquisition of it, already imperfect, after the Peninsular War in the early nineteenth century; sold in his sale Christie's, 8 December 1958, lot 190.

3. Goodspeeds book shop, Boston, and dispersed by them.

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