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GIOVANNI MARIA VISCONTI (1389-1412), duke of Milan. Grant of arms and investiture with the county of Cemmo and Cimbergo to Boccacino and Bartolomeo della Torre, in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM ILLUMINATED BY TOMASINO DA VIMERCATE

Auction 29.06.1994
29.06.1994
Schätzpreis
2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 3.050 $ - 4.575 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.530 £
ca. 3.858 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 28

GIOVANNI MARIA VISCONTI (1389-1412), duke of Milan. Grant of arms and investiture with the county of Cemmo and Cimbergo to Boccacino and Bartolomeo della Torre, in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM ILLUMINATED BY TOMASINO DA VIMERCATE

Auction 29.06.1994
29.06.1994
Schätzpreis
2.000 £ - 3.000 £
ca. 3.050 $ - 4.575 $
Zuschlagspreis:
2.530 £
ca. 3.858 $
Beschreibung:

GIOVANNI MARIA VISCONTI (1389-1412), duke of Milan. Grant of arms and investiture with the county of Cemmo and Cimbergo to Boccacino and Bartolomeo della Torre, in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM ILLUMINATED BY TOMASINO DA VIMERCATE [Milan, 23 October 1410] Single sheet, 465x675mm (520x675mm unfolded), 58 lines, written in brown ink in a small rounded gothic bookhand by Giovanni Moroni, notary and scribe to the Duke of Milan; display capitals alternately in red and blue flourished with the constrasting colour. Illuminated border on three sides made up of attenuated, scrolling acanthus leaves of blue, red, green and pink; containing on the left the biscia of the Visconti, an entwined blue dragon swallowing a small red man; in the upper margin the arms of Giovanni Maria Visconti with the biscia quartered with the imperial eagle and the sol cum columba device, a rayed sun containing a white dove and the motto a bon droit . In the centre of the deed a shield with the arms granted to the della Torre brothers: per pale or and gules, a displayed imperial eagle sable and argent. Subscribed by three notaries with their marks (slight rubbing, wear at folds, small hole with loss of text, lacks seal). The brothers Boccacino and Bartolomeo della Torre de Cemmo were invested with the county of Cemmo and Cimbergo in Val Camonica in the diocese of Brescia and allowed the privilege of displaying their coat of arms. Although this grant was given in the name of the duke, it was actually given on the orders of Domino Facino, count of Blandrate. Facino Cane was effectively the ruler of Milan during this chaotic period. After Giovanni Maria Visconti was assassinated in 1412, the present grant was ratified by his brother and successor Filippo Maria Visconti on 21 January 1413. The flamboyant heraldic border is the work of Tomasino Vimercate, the leading illuminator in Milan at this time. He is best known as the Master of the Modena Hours and for the luxury books that he illustrated for the court and ecclesiastical establishment, but other examples of his illumination of chancery deeds are known. A similar charter is in Milan, Archivio de'll Ospedale Maggiore (no.14) cf. C.M.Bollati "Nuove proposte per il Maestro del Libro d'Oro di Modena", Arte Cristiana 77 p.42, illus.18. The elegant and refined drawing and the strong colours of the present document are characteristic of his style. This was taken up and continued by the Master of the Vitae Imperatorum, the favourite illuminator of Filippo Maria Visconti. Cf. Kay Sutton, "Tomasino da Vimercate, the Master of the Modena Hours, and the Ambrosianae of Milan Cathedral". Burlington Magazine vol.133 pp 87-91 (January 1991)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 28
Auktion:
Datum:
29.06.1994
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

GIOVANNI MARIA VISCONTI (1389-1412), duke of Milan. Grant of arms and investiture with the county of Cemmo and Cimbergo to Boccacino and Bartolomeo della Torre, in Latin. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM ILLUMINATED BY TOMASINO DA VIMERCATE [Milan, 23 October 1410] Single sheet, 465x675mm (520x675mm unfolded), 58 lines, written in brown ink in a small rounded gothic bookhand by Giovanni Moroni, notary and scribe to the Duke of Milan; display capitals alternately in red and blue flourished with the constrasting colour. Illuminated border on three sides made up of attenuated, scrolling acanthus leaves of blue, red, green and pink; containing on the left the biscia of the Visconti, an entwined blue dragon swallowing a small red man; in the upper margin the arms of Giovanni Maria Visconti with the biscia quartered with the imperial eagle and the sol cum columba device, a rayed sun containing a white dove and the motto a bon droit . In the centre of the deed a shield with the arms granted to the della Torre brothers: per pale or and gules, a displayed imperial eagle sable and argent. Subscribed by three notaries with their marks (slight rubbing, wear at folds, small hole with loss of text, lacks seal). The brothers Boccacino and Bartolomeo della Torre de Cemmo were invested with the county of Cemmo and Cimbergo in Val Camonica in the diocese of Brescia and allowed the privilege of displaying their coat of arms. Although this grant was given in the name of the duke, it was actually given on the orders of Domino Facino, count of Blandrate. Facino Cane was effectively the ruler of Milan during this chaotic period. After Giovanni Maria Visconti was assassinated in 1412, the present grant was ratified by his brother and successor Filippo Maria Visconti on 21 January 1413. The flamboyant heraldic border is the work of Tomasino Vimercate, the leading illuminator in Milan at this time. He is best known as the Master of the Modena Hours and for the luxury books that he illustrated for the court and ecclesiastical establishment, but other examples of his illumination of chancery deeds are known. A similar charter is in Milan, Archivio de'll Ospedale Maggiore (no.14) cf. C.M.Bollati "Nuove proposte per il Maestro del Libro d'Oro di Modena", Arte Cristiana 77 p.42, illus.18. The elegant and refined drawing and the strong colours of the present document are characteristic of his style. This was taken up and continued by the Master of the Vitae Imperatorum, the favourite illuminator of Filippo Maria Visconti. Cf. Kay Sutton, "Tomasino da Vimercate, the Master of the Modena Hours, and the Ambrosianae of Milan Cathedral". Burlington Magazine vol.133 pp 87-91 (January 1991)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 28
Auktion:
Datum:
29.06.1994
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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