VIRGIN AND CHILD with confraternity members, in an initial S on a leaf from a Gradual, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Siena, late 13th century] 428 x 296mm (leaf); 110 x 98mm (initial). Half-length Virgin and Child making gestures of blessing, above a procession of five confraternity members at the foot of a flight of stairs, two of the men holding candles, the first with the banner of the confraternity, all against a background tesselated in shades of orange and blue, the initial staves of grey modelled in brown and white and punctuated with bosses of burnished gold, a border the height of the left margin including the torso of a wild man, a medallion-like pattern of foliate decoration in the lower margin. The leaf with five 4-line musical staves in red ink with square neumes and five lines of text in round Italian liturgical gothic script in brown ink; on the verso the original folio number 'xxv' in the upper margin (the script and neumes erased on the recto, a few tiny unobtrusive holes; the miniature and border in fine condition except for minor flaking of burnished gold). In a double-sided frame. The text Spiritus domini replevit orbem terrarum is that of the Introit for the Mass of Pentecost. This imposing initial is by one of the illuminators who worked on the choirbooks for Siena Cathedral at the end of the 13th century: Il Gotico a Siena , 1982, pp.51-52, 54, 68, 160-162. Three other detached folios with historiated initials painted by this illuminator, and closely comparable to the present initial, are now in Venice in the Fondazione Cini; a further initial with the Resurrection, probably from the same manuscript as the Cini leaves, belonged to H.P.Kraus when it was shown in the 1997 exhibition in Milan. In the catalogue of the exhibition the identification of the illuminator as Dietisalvi di Speme, an artist documented in Siena from 1259-1291, was proposed: A. Labriola, Miniature a Brera 1100-1422 , ed. Boskovits, Valagussa and Bollati (Milan 1997), pp.90-91, cat. no 13. These folios, however, are not from the same manuscript as the present leaf, which seems likely to have come from a choirbook made for, or commissioned by, a confraternity under the patronage of the Virgin. One candidate for consideration would be the Confraternit della Misericordia founded in Siena in 1250 by Beato Andrea Gallerani. Their premises still stand on via del Porrione.
VIRGIN AND CHILD with confraternity members, in an initial S on a leaf from a Gradual, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Siena, late 13th century] 428 x 296mm (leaf); 110 x 98mm (initial). Half-length Virgin and Child making gestures of blessing, above a procession of five confraternity members at the foot of a flight of stairs, two of the men holding candles, the first with the banner of the confraternity, all against a background tesselated in shades of orange and blue, the initial staves of grey modelled in brown and white and punctuated with bosses of burnished gold, a border the height of the left margin including the torso of a wild man, a medallion-like pattern of foliate decoration in the lower margin. The leaf with five 4-line musical staves in red ink with square neumes and five lines of text in round Italian liturgical gothic script in brown ink; on the verso the original folio number 'xxv' in the upper margin (the script and neumes erased on the recto, a few tiny unobtrusive holes; the miniature and border in fine condition except for minor flaking of burnished gold). In a double-sided frame. The text Spiritus domini replevit orbem terrarum is that of the Introit for the Mass of Pentecost. This imposing initial is by one of the illuminators who worked on the choirbooks for Siena Cathedral at the end of the 13th century: Il Gotico a Siena , 1982, pp.51-52, 54, 68, 160-162. Three other detached folios with historiated initials painted by this illuminator, and closely comparable to the present initial, are now in Venice in the Fondazione Cini; a further initial with the Resurrection, probably from the same manuscript as the Cini leaves, belonged to H.P.Kraus when it was shown in the 1997 exhibition in Milan. In the catalogue of the exhibition the identification of the illuminator as Dietisalvi di Speme, an artist documented in Siena from 1259-1291, was proposed: A. Labriola, Miniature a Brera 1100-1422 , ed. Boskovits, Valagussa and Bollati (Milan 1997), pp.90-91, cat. no 13. These folios, however, are not from the same manuscript as the present leaf, which seems likely to have come from a choirbook made for, or commissioned by, a confraternity under the patronage of the Virgin. One candidate for consideration would be the Confraternit della Misericordia founded in Siena in 1250 by Beato Andrea Gallerani. Their premises still stand on via del Porrione.
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