Single leaf, Gradual

Ms. illuminated for Ferdinand of Aragon (1452-1516) and his wife Isabella of Castile (1451-1504), whose coat of arms, posed on an eagle, is still partly to be seen on the illuminated border. Ms. presented by them to the Dominican convent of Santo Tomás in Avila (Old Castille); the complete manuscript was probably owned and cut up by Manuel Rico y Sinobas; this miniature was sold by C.G. Boerner in 1912 (cat. 110, 28 Nov. 1912, lot 56); it belonged later to Prince Liechtenstein (not mentioned in H. Bohatta, "Die Fürstlich Liechtentein'sche Fideikommissbibliothek in Wien: Geschichte, Übersiedlung, Kataloge", Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 32, 1915, p. 185-196; and was acquired by H.P. Kraus, who described it in the notice of another miniature from the same manuscript (H.P. Kraus, catalogue no 112, lot 45); Sam Fogg; Jonathan J.G. Alexander (bought 1990); Gift of Jonathan J.G. Alexander, 2004.