Laudario of Sant'Agnese
F-m070
Detailed description of the decoration by Georgina Babinszki. Additional information and bibliography by Godfried Croenen.
General Information
Southern gothica textualis formata.
Original Condition
Folio numbers by the scribe in Roman numerals.
5 unused lines at the bottom of the page.
Current Condition
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Full-page decoration on fol. 85v.
The upper three quarters of the page are taken by a miniature and a historiated initial. Both units are enclosed by the same frame, with a horizontal division between both sections.
The upper section shows the Last Supper on a podest, with Jesus and 11 apostles sitting on a bench. Judas is sitting on a stool on the other side of the table, putting his hand into a vessel full of water, just as Jesus does. Jesus is sitting on the left shorter side of the table, John reclining on his breast and Jesus resting his arm on John's back. Five apostles are shown with knives, two of them are holding a piece of bread, and one of them is drinking wine. Except for Judas, the heads of all the protagonists are nimbed.
The lower section holds the initial C from the text 'Corriverença et' further down on the page. The letter C is set against a gilded background, with three men on the left and three on the right. All of them wear a short veil, and the man in the foreground grabs a red hat in his hand. In the initial, the consecration takes place. A monk holds up the host in front of an altar with two candles and the open mass book. The book has inscriptions in Hebrew. On the left side of the mensa is a woman and on the right side a man in prayer. On the right, an other monk is holding a (Paschal?) candle.
In the lower quarter of the page is the text block, which consists of one line of music notation and one lin of the text, framed and gilded in capital letters set against a blue background.
The border extends on three margins, and holds twelve medaillions with saints: Saint Jerome, Pope Gregory, Pope Sylvester, the martyrs Saint Stephan, Saint Lawrence, Saint Pancras and an unidentified martyr, Saint Agnes, Mary Magdalene, Saint Nicholas and John the Baptist. Stylised flowers, leaves and intersecting knotworks connect the medaillons, each of them framed by stylised flowers and leaves.
Square notation on a stave of three red lines.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Italian
- Title 'Spirito Sancto glorioso', lauda for Pentecost
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Content Description
Last four verses of the lauda.
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Content Item
- Text Language Italian
- Title Con riverenza et
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Content Description
Lauda for the feast of Corpus Christi
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History
Florence
The Laudario was probably made for the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese at the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence.
Acquired in Paris in 1898 by Fritz Mayer van den Bergh from the heirs of Carlo Micheli.
The illumination of the original manuscript was made c. 1340 by Pacino di Bonaguida and was later completed by the Florence illuminator knows as the Master of the Dominican Effigies, who is the artist responsible for the miniature on this fragment.
Bibliography
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De Coo, Jozef, Museum Mayer van den Bergh. Catalogus 1: Schilderijen, verluchte handschriften, tekeningen, derde uitgave, geheel opnieuw bijgewerkt (Antwerpen: Govaerts, 1978), p. 181-182, no. 303.
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https://doi.org/10.1086/685923Keene, Bryan C., ‘New Discoveries from the Laudario of Sant’Agnese’, Getty Research Journal, 8 (2016), 199–208.
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/23631594Zimei, Francesco, ‘New Light on the So-Called Laudario di Sant’Agnese’, Musica Disciplina, 56 (2011), 463–90
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/40480099Panayotova, Stella, ‘New Miniatures by Pacino Di Bonaguida in Cambridge’, The Burlington Magazine, 151 (2009), 148.
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Ziino, Agostino, ‘Laudi e miniature fiorentine del primo Trecento’, Studi musicali, 7 (1978), 48-49, tav. 8a-b
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De Coo, Jozef, ‘L’ancienne collection Micheli au Musée Mayer van den Bergh’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 66 (1965), 345–70 (p. 365, no. 371)
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Sciacca, Christine, ‘Reconstructing the Laudario of Sant’Agnese’, in Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300–1350, ed. by Christine Sciacca (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012), pp. 219–35
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Sciacca, Christine, ed., ‘Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance: Painting and Illumination, 1300-1350’ (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty museum, 2012), p. 264-265, no. 45.15
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Boehm, Barbara Drake, ‘The Laudario of the Compagnia Di Sant’Agnese’, in Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450, ed. by Laurence B. Kanter, Barbara Drake Boehm, and Carl Brandon Strehlke (New York (N.Y.): Metropolitan museum of art, 1995), pp. 58–80 (p. 58, 61-62)