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Detailed record for Additional 21412, ff. 98-110
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| Title |
Cuttings from a Gospel Lectionary of Gregory XIII |
| Origin |
Italy, Central (Rome) |
| Date |
c. 1572 - c. 1585 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Artists |
A close follower of Giulio Clovio (Juraj Klovic) (b. Grizane, Croatia 1498, d. Rome, 3 January 1578). |
| Decoration |
13 decorated borders in colours and gold, of arabesques, putti playing with birds and a dog (f. 102), architectural motifs (f. 103), a female figure in gold monchrome and the Buoncompagni family dragon device (f. 101), the inscription 'G. XIII' (f. 99) and the arms of Gregory XIII (ff. 98-100); floral motifs and medallions containing figures of the Evangelists in gold monochrome (f. 104), trompe l'oeil gems (f. 108), a Buoncompagni dragon device (ff. 105, 107), a papal tiara and an inscription 'G/ rego / rius / XIII' (f. 106). 2 decorated borders in colours and gold, of flowers, birds, and butterflies (ff. 109-110). |
| Dimensions in mm |
370 x 45 (f. 98); 320 x 40 (f. 99); 350 x 40 (f. 100); 345 x 35 (f. 101); 350 x 40 (f. 102); 345 x 40 (f. 103); 350 x 40 (f. 104); 300 x 40 (f. 105; 350 x 40 (f. 106); 270 x 45 (f. 107); 270 x 40 (f. 108); 340 x 40 (f. 109); 350 x 40 (f. 110) |
| Official foliation |
Parchment cuttings in double-sided window mounts, foliated as '98'-'110'. |
| Form |
Parchment cuttings in double-sided window mounts, kept in a box with Add. 21412, ff. 90-97. |
| Binding |
N/A |
| Provenance |
Pope Gregory XIII (Boncompagni, r. 1572-1585), Italian pope and patron: his name, arms and dragon device (ff. 98-101, 105-107); probably excised from a Gospel Lectionary of Gregory XIII (A.I.17) described in a 1714 inventory of the Sistine Sacristy (Rome, Archivio di Stato, Camerale I, Vol. 1560, fasc. 24, ff. 265-302, transcribed in Emilia Anna Talamo, Codices Cantorum: Miniature e Disegni nei Codici della Capella Sistina (Florence: Officine del Novecento, 1998), pp. 216-22 (p. 218)).
Inscribed 'basso' and 'dritta' in a late 18th- or early 19th-century hand (ff. 107v and 100v, respectively).
Probably Luigi Celotti (b. 1759, d. 1843), Italian dealer: though not identifiable in his sales, 26 May 1825 and 3 May 1826.
William Young Ottley (b. 1771, d. 1836), writer on art and collector: according to the Rogers sale catalogue (see below) though not identifiable in his sale, 11 May 1838.
Samuel Rogers (b. 1763, d. 1855), poet: his sale, 28 April 1856, part of lot 1002, as from the collection of Ottley; purchased for £33 12s by the British Museum. |
| Notes |
Italian cuttings.
The present cuttings were formerly pasted into The Samuel Rogers Album and foliated as Add. 21412, ff. 46-50. In 1989 they were lifted from the album, remounted individually and stored in a box. Citations in publications often refer to their old folio number. To see these cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 90-110 [box 6]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.
Other cuttings from the same volume are Add. 35254K, N and P, Add. 49520; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.438; New York, Brooklyn Museum, 11.499 and The Morgan Library and Museum, MS. 270; Philadelphia, Free library, Ms. 27:7; Texas, private collection (see Sandra Hindman and Michael Heinlen, 'A Connoisseur's Montage: The Four Evangelists Attributed to Giulio Clovio', Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 17 (1991), 154-82). |
| Select bibliography |
British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the Years 1854-1860 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1875), pp. 377-78.
T. J. Brown, 'Some Manuscript Fragments Illuminated for Pope Greogry XIII', British Museum Quarterly, 23 (1960-1961), 2-5 (pp. 4-5) [as ff. 46-50].
Sandra Hindman and Michael Heinlen, 'A Connoisseur's Montage: The Four Evangelists Attributed to Giulio Clovio', Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 17 (1991), 154-82, app. no. 10, figs. 7a-b and 8a-d [ff. 109-10 and 100, 102, 104, 106, respectively].
Sandra Hindman and others, Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age: Recovery and Reconstruction (Evanston, IL: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 2001), pp. 65, 82 and 91 [exhibition catalogue].
Anne-Marie Eze, Abbé Luigi Celotti (1759-1843): Connoisseur, Dealer, and Collector of Illuminated Miniatures (unpublished doctoral thesis, London: Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 2010).
Elena De Laurentiis and Emilia Anna Talamo, The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: an Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispa´nica; Dallas, Tex.: Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, 2010), pp. 138, 337. |
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f. 98
Arms of Gregory XIII |
f. 99
Arms of Gregory XIII |
f. 100
Arms of Gregory XIII |
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f. 100v
dritta |
f. 101
Buoncompagni family dragon device |
f. 102
Border |
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f. 103
Border |
f. 104
Border |
f. 105
Border |
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f. 106
Border |
f. 107
Buoncompagni dragon device |
f. 107v
basso |
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f. 108
Border |
f. 109
Border |
f. 110
Border |
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