Stigmatization of St. Francis from the Belluno Gradual (MS M.1177).

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.