Accession number
MS M.1244
Object title
Leaf from the Breviary of Leonello d'Este, also known as the Llangattock Breviary.
Created
Italy, Ferrara, 1441-1448
Credit line
Gift of William M. Voelkle in honor of Dr. Scott Charles Schwartz on the occasion of the Morgan's Centennial, 2024.
Description
1 leaf : parchment, illuminated ; 271 x 203 mm
Provenance
Commissioned by Leonello d'Este (1407-1450) for the family chapel in the Palazzo Ducale (also known as the Palazzo Municipale); in a Spanish library, whole but with many initials cut out, according to a Sotheby's sale catalogue (25 April 1983, lot 133, p. 199); John Rolls (1776-1837); the codex included the bookplate of John Etherington Welch Rolls (1807-1870) and a note by his son John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837-1912): "Bought by my grandfather [John Rolls (1776-1837)]...supposed to have been Peninsular loot. The pictures cut out by soldiers. J. A. Rolls. 1882."; John Maclean Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock (1870-1916); sold in London, Christie's, 8 December 1958, lot 190, as part of the estate of the 2nd Baron Llangattock; bought by Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, which subsequently broke up the codex. This leaf had a label on back of frame (which no longer exists) that read "Framed at Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc., 18 Beacon Street, Boston, Date 4/21/59, No. 2730"; sold in New York, Manhattan Galleries, 12 August, 1982, lot 129; bought by William M. Voelkle (1939-).
Notes
Single leaf with lessons from the Book of Kings (Liber Regum); read at Matins on weekdays that fall after the Octave after Pentecost up until the 1st (Kalends) of August.
Title from Christie's Sale Catalog - 8 December 1958.
Initial: 167 x 125 mm.
Contents: Recto: 1 Kings (Regum III) 1:25-31; 2 Kings (Regum IV) 1:1-8 Verso: 2 Kings 1:8-18
Decoration: Recto: six-line historiated initial P for "Praevaricatus" with a bust of a haloed old testament prophet, possibly Jeremiah. Two columns of 30 lines written in brown ink, rubrics in red. Painted and gilt bar borders terminating in floral and filigree forms.
A single leaf from the Breviary of Leonello d'Este, also known as the Llangattock Breviary. The parent codex was broken apart by Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston) in 1959. Sister leaves can be found in various public and private collections.
The contents of the Llangattock Breviary closely follow the liturgical organization of the Breviary of Ercole d'Este (Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, MS V.G. 11).
Artist(s): Circle of Giorgio d'Alemagna (active ca. 1441-1479); Bartolomeo di Benincà, Guglielmo Giraldi, and Matteo de' Pasti.
Title from Christie's Sale Catalog - 8 December 1958.
Initial: 167 x 125 mm.
Contents: Recto: 1 Kings (Regum III) 1:25-31; 2 Kings (Regum IV) 1:1-8 Verso: 2 Kings 1:8-18
Decoration: Recto: six-line historiated initial P for "Praevaricatus" with a bust of a haloed old testament prophet, possibly Jeremiah. Two columns of 30 lines written in brown ink, rubrics in red. Painted and gilt bar borders terminating in floral and filigree forms.
A single leaf from the Breviary of Leonello d'Este, also known as the Llangattock Breviary. The parent codex was broken apart by Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston) in 1959. Sister leaves can be found in various public and private collections.
The contents of the Llangattock Breviary closely follow the liturgical organization of the Breviary of Ercole d'Este (Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, MS V.G. 11).
Artist(s): Circle of Giorgio d'Alemagna (active ca. 1441-1479); Bartolomeo di Benincà, Guglielmo Giraldi, and Matteo de' Pasti.
Script
Gothic textura rotunda
Language
Latin
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