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Detailed record for Additional 21412, ff. 20-44
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| Title |
Cuttings from Missals of Pope Leo X |
| Origin |
Italy, Central (Florence or Rome) |
| Date |
c. 1513 - c. 1521 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
Attavante (Castelfiorentino, 1452-1520/1525). |
| Decoration |
25 foliate and historiated borders in colours and gold, of the de' Medici devices of Leo X: a diamond ring with three feathers and motto 'Semper' (ff. 21, 24, 25, 27-36, 38-40, 42, 43) and a yoke with a scroll inscribed 'Suave' (ff. 20, 26, 41, 44), initials 'L.X.P.M.' (ff. 22, 23, 27, 28, 37, 41), winged putti (ff. 40, 42, 44), zoomorphic grotesques (ff. 22, 36) and bezants. |
| Dimensions in mm |
Various (see individual descriptions) |
| Official foliation |
Parchment cuttings in double-sided window mounts, foliated as '20'-'44'. |
| Form |
Parchment cuttings in double-sided window mounts, kept in boxes with other parchment cuttings. |
| Binding |
N/A |
| Provenance |
Leo X (de' Medici, r. 1513-21), Italian pope and patron: his devices and mottoes (ff. 20, 21, 24-36, 38-44), and initials (ff. 22, 23, 27, 28, 37, 41); excised from one or more volumes of three Missals (A.I.2-4) 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 (pp. 216-17)).
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: his sale, 11 May 1838, from lots 210-213, and 218-226; lots 223 and 225 were puchased by Rogers for 10s and £1 2s respectively, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue.
Samuel Rogers (b. 1763, d. 1855), poet: his sale, 28 April 1856, part of lot 1006; inscribed by Frederic Madden 'Purchased at the sale of the Pictures etc. of Samuel Rogers Esq. at Christie's 6th May 1856. /Lots 1002, 1005, 1006, 1008, 1009./' and '150 specimens F. M. ' (on mounted leaf in box 1).
William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £115 10s on the 8th day of the sale, 8 May 1856, according to an annotated Western Manuscripts departmental copy of the sale catalogue; purchased from Boone on the same day by the British Museum. |
| Notes |
Italian cuttings.
The present cuttings were formerly pasted into The Samuel Rogers Album and foliated as Add. 21412, ff. 13 (ff. 20-22), 14 (ff. 23-25), 15 (ff. 26-28), 16 (ff. 29-31), 17 (ff. 32 and 33), 18 (ff. 34-36), 19 (ff. 37-39), 20 (ff. 40-42) and 21 (ff. 43-44). In 1989 they were lifted from the album, remounted individually and stored in two boxes.
To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 21412, ff. 8-16 [box 2] and ff. 17-25 [box 3]. To see the Samuel Rogers Album, which originally contained all the cuttings order Add. 21412, Old Covers.
Other cuttings from the same Missals of Leo X include Add. 60630, ff. 8, 33-38; Cambridge, University Library, Ms Add. 4165 (15); Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes, MS. 109; London, Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 120, 21 June 1988, lots 36-37, 21 and 22 June 1993, lots 46 and 47, and 2 December 1997, lot 82; New York, Private Collection, formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection (see Pia Palladino, Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), no. 84); and Paris, Musée Marmottan, Wildenstein Collection, no. 8 (see Amédée Boinet, La Collection de Miniatures de M. Edouard Kann (Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1926), no. 40 and Académie des Beaux-Arts, La Collection Wildenstein (Paris: Musée Marmottan, 1980), no. 8). London, Victoria and Albert Museum, E.4588-1910 is a nineteenth-century copy inspired by the Geneva and New York cuttings (see Palladino, p. 168). |
| 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, p. 5 5n.
J. J. G. Alexander, 'Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in British Collections', in La Miniatura Italiana tra Gotico e Rinascimento: atti del II Congresso di Storia della Miniatura Italiana, Cortona, 24-26 settembre 1982, ed. by Emanuela Sesti (Florence: Olschki, 1985), 99-126 (p. 110 n. 30), reprinted in Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Studies in Italian Manuscript Illumination (London: Pindar Press, 2002), 22-54, 382-84 (p. 33 n. 30).
Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West, ed. by Paul Binski and Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2005), pp. 157-58.
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, 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). |
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f. 20
Suave |
f. 21
Semper |
f. 22
L. X. P. M. |
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f. 23
'L. X. P. M. |
f. 24
Semper |
f. 25
Semper |
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f. 26
Suave |
f. 27
Semper and L. X. P. M. |
f. 28
Semper and L. X. P. M. |
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f. 29
Semper |
f. 30
Semper |
f. 31
Semper |
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f. 32
Semper |
f. 33
Semper |
f. 34
Semper |
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f. 35
Semper |
f. 36
Semper |
f. 37
'L. X. P. M.' |
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f. 38
Semper |
f. 39
Semper |
f. 40
Semper |
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f. 41
Suave |
f. 42
Semper |
f. 43
Semper |
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f. 44
Suave |
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