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The Gotha Missal

c. 1375

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Master of the Boqueteaux

(French)

and Workshop

France, Paris

Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; blind-tooled leather binding

Codex: 28.3 x 20.6 x 4.8 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1962.287

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The artist received his name because of his tendency to draw trees that resembled little mushrooms.

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.

Provenance

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

Citations

H.P. Kraus (Firm). Thirty-Five Manuscripts: Including the St. Blasien Psalter, the Llangattock Hours, the Gotha Missal, the Roger Bacon (Voynich) Cipher Ms. New York, N.Y.: H.P. Kraus, 1962. pp. 32-39

Wixom, William D. "A Missal for a King: A First Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963) pp. 159-73

“Acquisition” Museum News (October 1963) p. 3

"Flashes," Jardin des Arts, (December 1963) p. 69

Mastai, M-L. D’Otrange. "The Connoisseur in America” The Connoisseur (Dec. 1963) pp. 273-75

The Art Quarterly, (Summer 1963) p. 250, 256

Bober, Harry. "Medieval Art at Cleveland," Apollo (December 1963) pp. 434, 456

Wixom, William D. "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. A Catalogue to the Exhibition: March 17-May 17, 1964." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 3 (1964) pp. 51-53

"La Chronique Des Arts," Gazette Des Beaux-Arts, (February 1964) p. 43, fig. 155

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 63 archive.org

Wixom, William D. "Three Gothic Sculptures." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 9 (1966) pp. 349-50

Beckwith, John. "A Rhenish Ivory Noli Me Tangere."Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin II (July 1966) p. 113

Alsop, Joseph."Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art." Art in America(May-June 1966) pp. 43-44

Bodleian Library, Otto Pächt, and J. J. G. Alexander. Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon P., 1966. p. 47 pl. XLVI

Stoddard, Whitney S. Monastery and Cathedral in France; Medieval Architecture, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Manuscripts, the Art of the Church Treasuries. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1966.

Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. pp. 220-21

Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke. 1967. fig. 519

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 63 archive.org

Cooper, Barbara, and Maureen Matheson. The World Museums Guide, Edited by Barbara Cooper & Maureen Matheson. London: Threshold Books Ltd, 1973. p. 78

Châtelet, Albert, and Nicole Reynaud. Etudes D'art Français Offertes À Charles Sterling. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1975. p. 70, fig. 49

Wixom, William D. "Leaves from a Prague Antiphonary." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 10 (1977)

Bott, Gerhard, and Frank Günter Zehnder. Vor Stefan Lochner: die Kölner Maler von 1300-1430 : Ergebnisse der Ausstellung und des Colloquiums, Köln, 1974. Köln: Rudolf Müller, 1977. p. 135 & 139

Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums. (1977). p. 44, fig. 15

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 70 archive.org

Goodrum, Charles A., Edith M. Pavese, and Daniel J. Boorstin. Treasures of the Library of Congress. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980.

"The Grandes Heures of Phillip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy." Speculum 57 (October 1982) pp. 794, 840

Sandler, Lucy Freeman. “Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary.” The Art Bulletin Vol. LXVI No. 1 (March 1984) pp. 73-96

De Winter, Patrick M. La bibliothèque de Philippe le Hardi, duc de Bourgogne (1364-1404): étude sur les manuscrits à peintures d'une collection princière à l'époque du "style gothique international". Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1985. pp. 6, 91, 100, 185, figs. 101 & 211

Sticca, Sandro. The Planctus Mariae in the dramatic tradition of the Middle Ages. Athens [Ga.]: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Hedeman, Anne D. The royal image: illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Kibler, William W., and Grover A. Zinn. Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. p. 318

Fillitz, Hermann, and Friedrich Dahm. Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Österreich. München: Prestel, 1998. pp. 482-83

Fillitz, Hermann, and Friedrich Dahm. Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Österreich. München: Prestel, 1998. fig. 26, p. 482, fol. 63v; fig. 28, p. 483 fol. 1r

May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. p. 27

Thürlemann, Felix, and Robert Campin. Robert Campin: A Monographic Study with Critical Catalogue. Munich: Prestel, 2002.

Fliegel, Stephen N., Sophie Jugie, and Virginie Barthélémy. Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless 1364-1419 : Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Dijon, May 28-September 15, 2004, the Cleveland Museum of Art, October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005. [Dijon]: Musée des beaux-arts, 2004. Cat no. 23, p. 79

Denoël, Charlotte. Saint André: culte et iconographie en France, Ve-XVe siècles. Paris: Ecole des chartes, 2004.

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. pp. 214-215

Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. p. 77, fig. 64

Luxford, Julian M. and M. A. Michael, eds. Tributes to Nigel Morgan: Contexts of Medieval Art: Images,Objects & Ideas. London: Harvey Miller, 2010. Mention: p. 202, note 40

Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012. p. 53, fig. 43

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
Fol. 63v only Mentioned and reproduced: P. 270

Fajt, Jiří. Nürnberg als Kunstzentrum des Heiligen Römischen Reichs: höfische und städtische Malerei in der Zeit Kaiser Karls IV. 1346-1378. Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag ; Prag : Nationalgalerie Prag 2019. Reproduced: p. 223, Abb. 238 (fol. 63v only)

Exhibition history

Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).

Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).

Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 17-April 19, 1964).

Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967).

Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Dijon, France (May 27-September 15, 2004); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005).

Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).

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