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[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT – 15TH CENTURY.]

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[ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT – 15TH CENTURY.]

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A RARE ILLUMINATED EPITHALAMIUM FROM MILAN. Bonino Mombrizio (1424- 1480). Bonini Mombritii epithalamium ad potentem comitem Gasparem Vicomercatum de nuptiis generosissimor Petri Comitis et Helisabeth Vicomercatae. [Milan, circa 1454-1467.] Latin & Greek poetic manuscript on vellum. 10 leaves (final 3 blank). 18 lines per page, poem 15 lines in total excluding title, humanist script in black and red ink with notabilia and corrections throughout. Opening leaf recto with an elaborate multicolored historiated panel in a single gilt frame depicting the wedding ceremony in a garden setting with a winged, blindfolded cupid linking the hands of the betrothed and Venus emerging from the heavens above the panel border pouring flowers over the gathering, together with a six-line historiated initial “O” depicting the married couple in a mountain scene, above a multicolored coat-of-arms and a free floating winged cupid with bow and arrow along the right margin. The 18th century full paneled calf. Some dampstaining spots and ink loss to opening leaf, upper fore edge margin and corner slightly chipped throughout, boards detached and worn. An enchanting and unusual love poem by the prominent Milanese humanist Bonino Mombrizio, which employs his characteristic blend of vernacular with Greek and Latin phrasing. Mombrizio is best known as the editor of the important incunable lives of the saints, Sanctuarium, [Milan: c. 1477]; he studied with the famous humanist educator Guarino Guarini and dedicated a translation of Hesiod to Borso d'Este of Mantua. Among other poems, he is known to have written epithalamia for the marriages of Francesco Sforza’s illegitimate sons Sforza Secondo and Tristano [Milan, Bibliotheca Ambrosiana, MS C 42 sup., fols. 47-67, fully described in Jordan & Wool, Inventory (1986), 71-72.] He also produced a longer vernacular epic on Katherine of Alexandria dedicated to Francesco Sforza’s wife, Bianca Maria, that bears an opening panel of illumination strikingly reminiscent of the artist in our manuscript [cf. Frazier, pl. 3]. The dedicatee, Gaspare Vimercati, was a prominent banker as well as a mercenary general for both the Visconti and the Sforza dukes of Milan (and a key figure in the failure of the Ambrosian Republic, 1447-1450). As a key supporter of Francesco Sforza, he is recorded by Machiavelli in his History of Florence as being instrumental to his conquest of Milan in 1450 [cf. ch. 42]. The groom is Pietro de Comite and the bride Elisabetta Vimercati, who is presumably the dedicatee’s daughter. The poem can be dated after 1454, when Gaspare Vimercati was named count (invested with the feud of Valenza Po), and before late September 1467, when the dedicatee died. None of Mombrizio’s epithalamia have been published, and are not addressed in Anthony D’Elia’s recent study on 15th century wedding poems (The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Harvard, 2004). A detailed study of Mombrizio’s work in Renaissance Italy has recently appeared, however [Alison Knowles Frazier, Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy. NY: Columbia University Press, 2005.] Manuscript epithalamia from this period are exceedingly rare in the marketplace, and indeed, what could be more charming than a celebratory wedding poem from the heart of Sforza’s Milan, with a vivid illuminated marriage scene featuring the Milanese court at the height of its powers? PROVENANCE: 1. Ownership inscription of Dominico Talio [?] to verso of final leaf. 2. Richard Heber Sale, part, XI, February 10, 1836, lot 777, sold for 6 pounds, 12 shillings, to Thorpe, on behalf of or sold to: 3. Thomas Phillipps collection, no. 9396. Catalogus p. 249. 4. Robinson Trust, 1955, cf. P.O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, vol. 4, at 231b. 5. By descent through the estate of Colonel David McCandless McKell [1881-1962].

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1013
Auktion:
Datum:
14.11.2005
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

A RARE ILLUMINATED EPITHALAMIUM FROM MILAN. Bonino Mombrizio (1424- 1480). Bonini Mombritii epithalamium ad potentem comitem Gasparem Vicomercatum de nuptiis generosissimor Petri Comitis et Helisabeth Vicomercatae. [Milan, circa 1454-1467.] Latin & Greek poetic manuscript on vellum. 10 leaves (final 3 blank). 18 lines per page, poem 15 lines in total excluding title, humanist script in black and red ink with notabilia and corrections throughout. Opening leaf recto with an elaborate multicolored historiated panel in a single gilt frame depicting the wedding ceremony in a garden setting with a winged, blindfolded cupid linking the hands of the betrothed and Venus emerging from the heavens above the panel border pouring flowers over the gathering, together with a six-line historiated initial “O” depicting the married couple in a mountain scene, above a multicolored coat-of-arms and a free floating winged cupid with bow and arrow along the right margin. The 18th century full paneled calf. Some dampstaining spots and ink loss to opening leaf, upper fore edge margin and corner slightly chipped throughout, boards detached and worn. An enchanting and unusual love poem by the prominent Milanese humanist Bonino Mombrizio, which employs his characteristic blend of vernacular with Greek and Latin phrasing. Mombrizio is best known as the editor of the important incunable lives of the saints, Sanctuarium, [Milan: c. 1477]; he studied with the famous humanist educator Guarino Guarini and dedicated a translation of Hesiod to Borso d'Este of Mantua. Among other poems, he is known to have written epithalamia for the marriages of Francesco Sforza’s illegitimate sons Sforza Secondo and Tristano [Milan, Bibliotheca Ambrosiana, MS C 42 sup., fols. 47-67, fully described in Jordan & Wool, Inventory (1986), 71-72.] He also produced a longer vernacular epic on Katherine of Alexandria dedicated to Francesco Sforza’s wife, Bianca Maria, that bears an opening panel of illumination strikingly reminiscent of the artist in our manuscript [cf. Frazier, pl. 3]. The dedicatee, Gaspare Vimercati, was a prominent banker as well as a mercenary general for both the Visconti and the Sforza dukes of Milan (and a key figure in the failure of the Ambrosian Republic, 1447-1450). As a key supporter of Francesco Sforza, he is recorded by Machiavelli in his History of Florence as being instrumental to his conquest of Milan in 1450 [cf. ch. 42]. The groom is Pietro de Comite and the bride Elisabetta Vimercati, who is presumably the dedicatee’s daughter. The poem can be dated after 1454, when Gaspare Vimercati was named count (invested with the feud of Valenza Po), and before late September 1467, when the dedicatee died. None of Mombrizio’s epithalamia have been published, and are not addressed in Anthony D’Elia’s recent study on 15th century wedding poems (The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Harvard, 2004). A detailed study of Mombrizio’s work in Renaissance Italy has recently appeared, however [Alison Knowles Frazier, Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy. NY: Columbia University Press, 2005.] Manuscript epithalamia from this period are exceedingly rare in the marketplace, and indeed, what could be more charming than a celebratory wedding poem from the heart of Sforza’s Milan, with a vivid illuminated marriage scene featuring the Milanese court at the height of its powers? PROVENANCE: 1. Ownership inscription of Dominico Talio [?] to verso of final leaf. 2. Richard Heber Sale, part, XI, February 10, 1836, lot 777, sold for 6 pounds, 12 shillings, to Thorpe, on behalf of or sold to: 3. Thomas Phillipps collection, no. 9396. Catalogus p. 249. 4. Robinson Trust, 1955, cf. P.O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, vol. 4, at 231b. 5. By descent through the estate of Colonel David McCandless McKell [1881-1962].

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 1013
Auktion:
Datum:
14.11.2005
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
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