Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek, MS 20: A New Acquisition to Late Thirteenth-Century Genoese Manuscript Production

Federica Volpera
Anna De Floriani's research, carried on since late 1970s, the catalogue of Italian manuscripts of the Bibliothe`que nationale de France, Paris, edited in 1984, and an article by Marie-The´re`se Gousset on puzzle initials in Gothic Genoese books, published in 'Arte medievale' in 1988, represent the beginning of a critical history that has been able to reconstruct the role of Genoa as one of the most active centres of book production between the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth century. Recent studies have enriched this context, attributing to Genoa medical and scientific treatises, and an important but complex group of late thirteenth-century manuscripts, which include the Bestiaire d'Amour by Richard de Fournival, the Tre´sor by Brunetto Latini, and Arthurian legends, probably the result of a collaboration between Genoese and Pisan scribes and illuminators, the latter present in the Liguria city as prisoners of war after the battle of the Meloria (1284).
Starting from this point and taking into account artistic and stylistic evidence from books which are sure to have been produced in Genoa in these years, this article intends to demonstrate the Genoese origin of a late thirteenth-century manuscript preserved in the Eisenbibliothek in Schlatt, ms. 20, a collection of philosophical treatises, characterized by a rich illustration composed of historiated, decorated and puzzle initials, and interesting iconographical solutions.

Index

Lucinia Speciale The Christian Muse. Mark's Portrait in the Rossano Gospels
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Teresa D’Urso Cava and the Mediterranean. Some Manuscripts from the Norman-Swabian Period
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Fabrizio Crivello A Glossed Psalter in Late Geometrical Style in Mainz
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Silvia Maddalo Histories on the Margins. Notes on the Manfred Bible in Turin
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Federica Volpera Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek, MS 20: A New Acquisition to Late Thirteenth-Century Genoese Manuscript Production
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Laura Pasquini Henry VII and the Figurative Representation of Royalty: The Manuscript Sources
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Giordana Mariani Canova Ildebrandino Conti's Missal and Its Illuminators: The Maestro Avignonese and the Maestro del Codice di san Giorgio
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Marco Rossi A Figurative Addition to Giovanni Visconti's Milan: The Chronica urbis lat. 4946
vai all'articolo » pag. 74-77
Antonella Cattaneo The Illustrative Apparatus of Huon d'Auvergne in Berlin
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Massimo Medica Cicero at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid: An Illuminated Manuscript from the Visconti's Court Still to Be Studied
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Giuliana Algeri Remarks on the “Bodmer Prayer Book” by Michelino da Besozzo
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Gennaro Toscano A Book of Hours Illuminated by Leonardo da Besozzo for Alfonso the Magnanimous (Vienna, O¨sterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1886)
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Giovanna Saroni Unpublished Fragments of a Savoyard Book of Hours
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Federica Toniolo Illuminated Incunabula by the Urbinate and Ferrarese Workshop of Federico da Montefeltro
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Lilian Armstrong Roberto Valturio, De re militari, 1472. A Note on the Hand-illuminated Copy in Houghton Library of Harvard University
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Anca Delia Moldovan Astrology and Agriculture in the Calendar of the Offiziolo of Charles VIII (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, inv. 2502/4)
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Giuseppa Z. Zanichelli The Master of the Breviary of San Giovanni Evangelista
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Elena De Laurentiis The Choir Books in the Centro Studi Francescani per la Liguria. Some New Illuminations by Michele da Genova
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Elli Doulkaridou Ramantani Two Illuminated Statuti from the Archive of San Giovanni Decollato in Rome
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Antonio Iacobini, Giulia Orofino, Xavier Barral i Altet Opus Romanum. Un nuovo libro sulla miniatura a Roma nel Duecento
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