Regarding the attribution of the School and the dating, we obtain the inform ation from the Catalog of the Exhibition “Tesori Miniati … di Bergamo e Brescia”: on the bibliographic card 63 a Missal from the Queriniana Civic Library (ms. C II 3) is presented , whose ornamentation and illustration, which is believed to be of the Lombard school, is very close to the present codex: this Missal was made for the Cathedral of Brescia. Comparing the miniatures of the Missal reproduced in the Catalog with the miniatures of our Codex, a notable similarity in style emerges : the way the initials are worked in white lead; filigree friezes with large flowers and tangles of leaves and a sort of large ocher pistil, parts of the frieze on gold foil; the frames (which in our code are partly cut out). Design and colors. The figures of Saint Saturninus, the Annunciation and the Psalmist in the water also appear in keeping with the Madonna and Child, the saints in the frame and the Psalmist. The name of the illuminator does not appear but it was a workshop active in the city in those years. In the entry, written by Marubbi, two Breviaries similar to the Missal are named, one Franciscan (Sotheby's sale London 1989, lot. 53) and one Dominican (Christies 1990, lot. 21).
See Tesori miniati. Codici e incunaboli dei fondi antichi di Bergamo e Brescia, exhibition Catalogue, edited by M.L. Gatti Perer, M. Marubbi, (Bergamo, Brescia 1995) Cinisello Balsamo Silvana Editoriale 1995, pp. 174-175.
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Tesori miniati. Codici e incunaboli dei fondi antichi di Bergamo e Brescia, catalogo della mostra, a cura di M.L. Gatti Perer, M. Marubbi, (Bergamo, Brescia 1995) Cinisello Balsamo Silvana Editoriale 1995, pp. 174-175.
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