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1047 - TOULOUSE, Jean de (workshop of) Leaf CIIII from the Pontifical of Juan Guzmán de Villacreces, also known as the Colombina Pontifical. [Avignon 1390] 37 x 27.5 cm, parchment, Gothic script, mainly in red pen on 2 columns of 24 lines, recto-verso. From the workshop of the famous miniaturist Jean de Toulouse, active in Avignon during the Great Schism of the Catholic Church (1378–1417). 1 leaf (2 pages) from the lavish pontifical of Juan de Villacreces, bishop of Calahorra and La Calzada (1382–1394) and of Burgos (1394–1403), and chancellor to Queen Leonor of Navarre. The original codex, commissioned by the bishop himself in 1390, contained 328 folios but was partially disassembled during the 1880s. The main part of the manuscript is now housed at the Biblioteca Capitular Colombina in Seville Cathedral, which was greatly enriched by donations from Hernando Colón, son of Christopher Columbus. Two fragments of the manuscript are housed at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens. Our fragment specifically deals with the ceremony for the ordination of a bishop. Ref. A.M. As-Vijvers, in: Miniatures and Monastic Art: Medieval Manuscripts from a Brabant Collection, exhibition catalog, Tilburg, 1999, no. 26. - F. Manzari, La miniatura ad Avignone al tempo dei papi (1310–1410), 2006, pp. 249–252. - Ibid., Jan Fabre. Illuminations. Enluminures. Trésors enluminés de France, exhibition catalog, Lille, 2013, pp. 210–211 (on the cuttings from Amiens). - F. Avril, see the introduction to the same catalog regarding the removal of leaves from the Colombina Pontifical in the 1880s.
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TOULOUSE, Jean de (workshop of) Leaf CIIII from the Pontifical of Juan Guzmán de Villacreces, also known as the Colombina Pontifical. [Avignon 1390] 37 x 27.5 cm, parchment, Gothic script, mainly in red pen on 2 columns of 24 lines, recto-verso. From the workshop of the famous miniaturist Jean de Toulouse, active in Avignon during the Great Schism of the Catholic Church (1378–1417). 1 leaf (2 pages) from the lavish pontifical of Juan de Villacreces, bishop of Calahorra and La Calzada (1382–1394) and of Burgos (1394–1403), and chancellor to Queen Leonor of Navarre. The original codex, commissioned by the bishop himself in 1390, contained 328 folios but was partially disassembled during the 1880s. The main part of the manuscript is now housed at the Biblioteca Capitular Colombina in Seville Cathedral, which was greatly enriched by donations from Hernando Colón, son of Christopher Columbus. Two fragments of the manuscript are housed at the Musée de Picardie in Amiens. Our fragment specifically deals with the ceremony for the ordination of a bishop. Ref. A.M. As-Vijvers, in: Miniatures and Monastic Art: Medieval Manuscripts from a Brabant Collection, exhibition catalog, Tilburg, 1999, no. 26. - F. Manzari, La miniatura ad Avignone al tempo dei papi (1310–1410), 2006, pp. 249–252. - Ibid., Jan Fabre. Illuminations. Enluminures. Trésors enluminés de France, exhibition catalog, Lille, 2013, pp. 210–211 (on the cuttings from Amiens). - F. Avril, see the introduction to the same catalog regarding the removal of leaves from the Colombina Pontifical in the 1880s.
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