DAVID IN PRAYER, historiated initial 'A' on a leaf from the Gradual of Petrus Mitte de Caprariis, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Germany, Bavaria, c.1450-75] A lively leaf from what would have been a sumptuous choirbook produced for the great Renaissance bibliophile Petrus Mitte de Caprariis. 520 x 330mm. Initial 'A' with three-sided border incorporating the arms of Petrus Mitte de Caprariis opening the introit to the Mass for the first Sunday of Advent, 'Ad te levavi animam meam'. 8 lines of text and music on a 4-line stave, large initials in red, blue and brown ink with penwork decoration, rubrics in red (some marginal cockling and staining, repaired horizontal tear in top left corner, some minor losses to the gold). Mounted. Provenance : (1) Petrus Mitte de Caprariis (1415-79), or Pierre Mitte de Chevrières, bibliophile of Memmingen, Bavaria; Preceptor of the Antonine hospital in Memmingen; canon lawyer: his coat of arms. By 1475 his famed library consisted of 242 Latin works ranging from classical authors such as Cicero, Flavius ??Josephus, Terentius and Apuleius to Petrarch and Lorenzo Valla, but with an emphasis on theology and canon law. Parts of his library are preserved in Memmingen and Augsburg, with other books in Stuttgart, London and Copenhagen. A sister fragment from this manuscript, also bearing Petrus Mitte de Caprariis' coat of arms, is Philadelphia Free Library Lewis EM 1:26. (2) De Rarecourt de la Vallée de Pimodan family: early 20th-century red ink stamp in lower margin. Most likely Gabriel, duc de Rarecourt de la Vallée, marquis de Pimodan (1856-1924), poet and historian. The title of papal duke was conferred upon the family in 1860 by Pius IX. (3) Les Enluminures, 2010. The jolly figures with their doll-like faces, beady eyes and flushed cheeks, and the palette of bright yellows, greens, and blues, are typical features of southern German illumination of this period. The style is particularly close to that of a leaf from an Antiphonal dating from the third quarter of the 15th century at the Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 357.
DAVID IN PRAYER, historiated initial 'A' on a leaf from the Gradual of Petrus Mitte de Caprariis, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Germany, Bavaria, c.1450-75] A lively leaf from what would have been a sumptuous choirbook produced for the great Renaissance bibliophile Petrus Mitte de Caprariis. 520 x 330mm. Initial 'A' with three-sided border incorporating the arms of Petrus Mitte de Caprariis opening the introit to the Mass for the first Sunday of Advent, 'Ad te levavi animam meam'. 8 lines of text and music on a 4-line stave, large initials in red, blue and brown ink with penwork decoration, rubrics in red (some marginal cockling and staining, repaired horizontal tear in top left corner, some minor losses to the gold). Mounted. Provenance : (1) Petrus Mitte de Caprariis (1415-79), or Pierre Mitte de Chevrières, bibliophile of Memmingen, Bavaria; Preceptor of the Antonine hospital in Memmingen; canon lawyer: his coat of arms. By 1475 his famed library consisted of 242 Latin works ranging from classical authors such as Cicero, Flavius ??Josephus, Terentius and Apuleius to Petrarch and Lorenzo Valla, but with an emphasis on theology and canon law. Parts of his library are preserved in Memmingen and Augsburg, with other books in Stuttgart, London and Copenhagen. A sister fragment from this manuscript, also bearing Petrus Mitte de Caprariis' coat of arms, is Philadelphia Free Library Lewis EM 1:26. (2) De Rarecourt de la Vallée de Pimodan family: early 20th-century red ink stamp in lower margin. Most likely Gabriel, duc de Rarecourt de la Vallée, marquis de Pimodan (1856-1924), poet and historian. The title of papal duke was conferred upon the family in 1860 by Pius IX. (3) Les Enluminures, 2010. The jolly figures with their doll-like faces, beady eyes and flushed cheeks, and the palette of bright yellows, greens, and blues, are typical features of southern German illumination of this period. The style is particularly close to that of a leaf from an Antiphonal dating from the third quarter of the 15th century at the Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 357.
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