Breviary
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Dr François Avril and Dr Dominique Vanwijnsberghe kindly shared their views of the miniature's style.
General Information
One hand, Northern textualis formata
De Coo describes the cutting as part of a homiliary, probably because the text fragment is from a homily, but it is more likely to have been a breviary.
Original Condition
Current Condition
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Annuncation. On the right the Virgin Mary inside an architectural setting praying from a book laid out on a table against the wall. Mary turns away from the book towards the angel on the left and the Holy Spirt sent from God the father represented as a bearded figure looking down on the scene up from a cloud in the upper left-hand corner. Diapered background of gold, blue and red, with white penwork.
The composition is very close to an Annunciation painted by the Pseudo-Jacquemart in British Library, MS Thompson 37, but the style shows that we have here a different Parisian painter. The way architectural details are portrayed shows some similiarity to work by the Luçon Master.
Content
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Content Item
- Persons Augustinus Aurelius
- Text Language Latin
- Title <i>Homilia in Dominica II Adventus</i>
- Edition Patrologia latina, vol. 47, col. 1133
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Remarks
Verso side with the text not reproduced
History
Paris
Acquired in Paris in 1898 by Fritz Mayer van den Bergh from the heirs of Carlo Micheli.
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. 183-184, no. 370.
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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. 381)