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The Gotha Missal: Fol. 70r, Text

The Gotha Missal: Fol. 70r, Text

c. 1375
(French)
France, Paris
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; blind-tooled leather binding
Codex: 27.1 x 19.5 cm (10 11/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1962.287.70.a
Location: not on view

Description

The style and quality of this manuscript's decoration is typical of deluxe Parisian books made for aristocratic or royal patrons. Most of the book's decoration appears to be the work of the Master of the Boqueteaux, an artist active at the court of King Charles V (died 1380). His style was apparently shared by a number of book illuminators working in and around Paris. It is very possible that the Gotha Missal belonged to Charles V, but is not provable because the manuscript has no royal portraits and lacks a colophon. Given the book's magnificent decoration, however, it would seem that it was produced for a Valois prince, if not for the king himself. The manuscript receives its name from the German dukes of Gotha, its later owners.
  • 1720
    J. B. Huhn
    1745
    Dukes of Gotha
    1950
    Earl of Denbigh, Sale: Southey's, 4/3/1950, Lot 1
    Apsley Cherry-Garrard
    1961
    Mrs. Gordon Mathias, Sale: Southey's 6/5/1961, lot 177)
    -1962
    H. P. Kraus, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1962-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
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