(Q2726)
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From the Missal of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini (1442-1507), who gave it to the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican, where it was recorded in 1714; probably looted during the French occupation of Rome in 1798; the abate Luigi-Celotti (c. 1768-c. 1846), who probably cut it up.
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his sale, Christie’s, 26 May 1825, part of lot 48; perhaps William Young Ottley (1771-1836); perhaps part of lot 204 in his sale, Sotheby’s, 11 May 1838; C. L. Ricketts, bought from Tregaskis; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XVI(in); 1500-1515
16. century
1500Gregorian
1515Gregorian
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Binding: Not bound.
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Figurative details, 3 separate border strips: The central strip including a roundel (cut out and loosely reinserted) showing two monkeys and a deer in a landscape, the right-hand strip including at the lower right part of an illuminated initial ‘S’ (this was a left border therefore).
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Other decoration, 3 separate border strips: Painted in elaborate designs of coloured flowers and leaves on burnished or liquid gold grounds.
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Layout, 3 separate border strips: 3 border strips (one now cut further into 3 pieces but reassembled), (a) 231 mm. by 52 mm., (b) in three pieces 90 + 71 + 75 mm. by approximately 62–69 mm., and (c) 233 mm. by 53 mm; versos blank, loosely attached to card.
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Manuscript note: The Pallavicini Missal is recorded in some detail in the inventory of the Sistine Chapel in 1714. One volume, with 112 leaves, was A.III.6, and is now in Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, Vit. 22.7, with an inscription noting that it was ‘rescued’ by the archbishop of Toledo in 1798, during the sack of the Vatican by Napoleonic troops. The other volume was A.II.13 in the sacristy...
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3 separate border strips: Other fragments of borders from the same manuscript include the initials and arms of Antioniotto Pallavicini, created archbishop of Genoa and a cardinal in 1489. He was later head of the Vatican chancery and was on close terms with Alexander VI (Borgia, pope 1492–1503). Towards the end of his life, Pallavicini evidently commissioned a luxurious 2-volume illuminated...
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3 separate border strips: Latin.
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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