BOY FISHING, historiated initial "C" on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM [Northwestern Italy, last quarter of the 14th century] Leaf 520x370mm, initial 145x118mm, grey and purple on blue ground with white penwork decoration and coloured leafy extension. A boy dressed in a red shift sitting on a green hill, a lake below. He has just caught a small grey fish, dangling from his fishing rod; against a dark-brown background. Text written in light-brown ink in a large gothic textura, rubrics in red, with 5 lines of music in square notation on red 4-line staves. 6 lines of music on verso. The leaf is numbered 43 in an 18th- century hand. The miniature introduces the Antiphon for Matins on Palm Sunday ' Contumelias et terrores passus' A highly unusual subject in a choir book, presumably taken from a calendar miniature illustrating Pisces, the sign for February. The artist is almost certainly provincial from Northwestern Italy and was greatly influenced by Niccolò da Bologna. Mr. Robert Gibbs has pointed out that Niccolo used the same iconography of a man fishing with a rod, in the 1374 Missale Romanum at Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Lat 10072) for the calendar miniature for February; cf. Meiss, French Painting in the time of Jean de Berry II (1969) p.311 and illus.716
BOY FISHING, historiated initial "C" on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM [Northwestern Italy, last quarter of the 14th century] Leaf 520x370mm, initial 145x118mm, grey and purple on blue ground with white penwork decoration and coloured leafy extension. A boy dressed in a red shift sitting on a green hill, a lake below. He has just caught a small grey fish, dangling from his fishing rod; against a dark-brown background. Text written in light-brown ink in a large gothic textura, rubrics in red, with 5 lines of music in square notation on red 4-line staves. 6 lines of music on verso. The leaf is numbered 43 in an 18th- century hand. The miniature introduces the Antiphon for Matins on Palm Sunday ' Contumelias et terrores passus' A highly unusual subject in a choir book, presumably taken from a calendar miniature illustrating Pisces, the sign for February. The artist is almost certainly provincial from Northwestern Italy and was greatly influenced by Niccolò da Bologna. Mr. Robert Gibbs has pointed out that Niccolo used the same iconography of a man fishing with a rod, in the 1374 Missale Romanum at Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Lat 10072) for the calendar miniature for February; cf. Meiss, French Painting in the time of Jean de Berry II (1969) p.311 and illus.716
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