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The Origins of an illuminated ‘Meditationes Vitae Christi’ manuscript

08/2021 | 1421 | 163

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Author:

Bartal, Renana (Bartal, Renana)

Subjects

media:

Illuminated manuscripts

museums and institutions:

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Great Britain

patrons:

Baglioni family

places:

Perugia

subjects:

Origins / Illuminators / Illuminations / Patronage

subjects:

Early Italian art

works:

Meditationes Vitae Christi

Illustrations

Attributed works:

3. Detail of an Antiphonal, attributed to the Master of S. Lorenzo. c.1320. (Biblioteca Capitolare, Perugia; MS 9, fol.93r).

Attributed works:

6. Detail of Meditationes Vitae Christi, by hand two, showing St Clare (or a Poor Clare nun), St Francis and the coat of arms. c.1300–20. (Corpus Christi College, Oxford; MS 410, fol.1r).

Attributed works:

7. The Baglioni family coat of arms.

Western art unattributed:

1. Detail of Meditationes Vitae Christi, by hand three, showing the meal at the house of Simon the leper. 1300–20. (Corpus Christi College, Oxford; MS 410, fol.112r).

Western art unattributed:

2. Detail of Meditationes Vitae Christi, by hand one, showing the Virgin’s childhood years at the temple. 1300–20. (Corpus Christi College, Oxford; MS 410, fol.6r).

Western art unattributed:

4. Detail of an Antiphonal, showing the Adoration of the Magi. c.1300. (Città di Castello, Biblioteca Comunale, Codex E).

Western art unattributed:

5. Detail of Fig.6, showing the Baglioni family coat of arms.

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