Aggiunte alla miniatura marchigiana. I frammenti tardoduecenteschi di Antifonario della Biblioteca Comunale de Ascoli Piceno

• Autores: Marco D'Attanasio
• Localización: Rivista di storia della miniatura, ISSN 1126-4772, Nº. 19, 2015, págs. 31-45
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Additions to the illuminated production from the Marches. The late 13th-century Antiphonary fragments in the Biblioteca Communale at Ascoli Piceno.

    This study introduces five illuminated choir books preserved in the Biblioteca Communale 'G. Gabrielli' at Ascoli Piceno, until now practically overlooked by art historical literature. Choir book ms. 14 had been mentioned in the past, but other four manuscripts, among those kept in the library, are undoubtedly related to it (mss. 9, 11, 12, 13).

    A codicological and textual analysis has allowed us to recognize in the books the Offices pertaining to the Proper of the Season, the Proper of the Saints and the Common of the Saints. It is therefore possible to suggest that the manuscripts, containing parts of the Antiphonary, probably belonged to the same liturgical series; nonetheless, given that every volume has been manipulated, it is not possible to be absolutely certain about this. The manuscripts still comprise many illuminated initials, both decorated and historiated, and the article proposes to assign them to three different workshop, which seem to work in parallel. It is possible to compare the miniatures with illuminations produced in other areas of central Italy; some decorated initials have stylistic affinities with Umbrian late 13th-century art, while other elements suggest a relationship with Rome. Moreover, even closer comparison can be found with a group of frescoes in the churches of San Vittore and San Giacomo in Ascoli Piceno. The lack of information regarding illuminated manuscripts produced in the Maches prevents us from ascertaining if it was the illuminators that copies the painters or the opposite, but the affinities between frescoes and miniatures are unquestionable. This allows us ti suppose that the manuscripts were illuminated by local workshops, at the end of the 13th century, as stylistic, liturgical and historical reasons agree in dating the manuscripts to the last decade of this century. The five manuscripts are therefore extremely important, because they document a period of illumination from the Marches until now practically unknown.