Object details
Object number
2.b.2.4
Creator(s)
Title
Statute Book of the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament of the church of Saint Geminianus [Mariegola della Scuola del Santissimo Sacramento di San Geminiano]
Date
1504-1799
Medium
Ink, colors and gold on vellum and paper
Language
Latin
Publication Place
Venice
Binding Description
Rose velvet, missing silver decoration (Venetian, dated mid-18th century)
Description
1 Vol. (110 leaves) : parchment and paper : ill. ; 30 cm
Dimensions
30 x 21.5 cm (11 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Affixed (f.1): bookplate of Edward Cheney
Inscribed (f.1): "Afterwards John Ruskin's ; now, 1900, mine. Charles Eliot Norton."
Inscribed (f.1): "Now, 1903, mine, Isabella Stewart Gardner."
Provenance
Collection of the Scuola del Sacramento, church of San Geminiano, Venice, 1504-1807.
Collection of the English art collector and watercolor painter Edward Cheney (1803-1884).
Purchased by the artist and social critic John Ruskin (1819–1900) from the Cheney sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on 25 June 1886 for £3.7.61.
Possibly in the collection of the English painter Arthur Severn (1842-1931), about 1900.
Collection of the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1900.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 3 July 1903 for $2,500. (with 18 other Venetian manuscripts)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Edward Cheney. Remarks on the Illuminated Official Documents of the Venetian Republic (London, 1867-1868), p. 24.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), pp. 30-32.
Seymour de Ricci and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. I (New York, 1935), p. 932, no. 14.
J.S. Rearden. "John Ruskin, the Collector: With a Catalogue of the Illuminated and Other Manuscripts Formerly in his Collection." The Library, V series, no. 21 (1966), p. 150, no. 67.
Helena Szépe, "Venetian Manuscripts" in Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), pp. 233-35, fig. 172.
Susy Marcon. "Bordon, Benedetto." in Milvia Bollati (ed.). Dizionario biografico dei miniatori Italiani: secoli IX-XVI (Milan, 2004), p. 124.
Catherine Puglisi and William Barcham (eds). Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese. Exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Biblical Art, 2011), pp. 108-13, no. 40.
Anne-Marie Eze. "Italian Illuminated Manuscripts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum." Rivista di Storia della Miniatura 16 (2012), pp. 81, 91.
Lyle Humphrey. "From Column to Chalice: Passion Imagery in Venetian Mariegole ca. 1320-1550" in Catherine Puglisi and William Barcham. "New Perspective on the Man of Sarrows (Studies in Iconography: Themes and Variations) (Kalamazoo, 2013), pp. 239, 247, fig. 22.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, no. 198053, accessed 4 November 2016.
Anne-Marie Eze in Jeffrey F. Hamburger et al. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Newton: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Cambridge: Houghton Library, Harvard University, 2016), pp. 18, 49, 54-55, 302-303, no. 37, ill.
Anne-Marie Eze. "'Safe from Destruction by Fire': Isabella Stewart Gardner's Venetian Manuscripts." Journal for Manuscript Studies (Fall 2017), pp. 205-207, fig. 7
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Dante Case
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