{"product_id":"defeat-antiochus-king-syria-battle-magnesia-cut-from-wv3v34gk","title":"The defeat of Antiochus, King of Syria, at the battle of Magnesia, cut from the Romuléon, an illuminated manuscript on vellum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fine secular miniature once illustrating what would have been an imposing copy of the \u003cem\u003eRomuléon\u003c\/em\u003e, already separated by 1884 (see below). The work draws on several classical and Christian authors and tells the story of Rome and the Romans from the time of Romulus and Remus to Constantine the Great.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original compilation, in Latin, was made by Benvenuto da Imola between 1361 and 1364, but in the 1460s, in response to the courtly taste for histories and chronicles in the vernacular, two writers independently undertook to translate the work into French (see S. McKendrick, ‘The Romuléon and the MSS of Edward IV’, \u003cem\u003eProceedings of the 1992 Harlaxton Symposium\u003c\/em\u003e, 1994, pp.149-69). The present miniature illustrated a chapter of the translation of Jean Miélot, resident of Lille between 1453 and 1472, who was in the service of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, from around 1448 until the duke’s death in 1467.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly six complete manuscripts of Miélot’s translation survive, all of them luxury volumes made in the southern Netherlands for members or friends of the Burgundian court.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey were attributed to an illuminator active in Langres between 1480 and 1493 serving clients in Champagne and Lorraine (N. Reynaud in \u003cem\u003eLes Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520\u003c\/em\u003e, 1993, p. 376). The artist was subsequently named as one Langres illuminator Pierre Garnier, who worked at the court of René d’Anjou between 1476-1480 (Lauga, 2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e: The fragmentary parent manuscript to which these and other dispersed miniatures once belonged has been identified in Niort (Médiathèque Pierre-Moinot, Cote RESG2F), given in 1884 by Edmond-Emmanuel Arnauldet. \u003cstrong\u003eIt is the only known copy of the \u003cem\u003eRomuléon\u003c\/em\u003e that is French in origin.\u003c\/strong\u003e For this manuscript and sister detached miniatures (see S. McKendrick, 2012). The volume from which it came is Niort, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. Réserve G2F, formerly ms.25. The manuscript’s frontispiece is in the Musée de Cluny in Paris acquired by 1883; other pieces are in the Musée de Limoges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present cutting was part of lot 9 from an album of 14 miniatures dispersed at Christie’s, 21 June 1989, lots 6-11.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKarl and Elizabeth Katz, their sale at Christie’s New York 12 December 2017, lot 31.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an arched miniature with traces of border at top left and right. A little flaking of paint at top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eS. McKendrick, ‘The Romuléon and the MSS of Edward IV’, \u003cem\u003eProceedings of the 1992 Harlaxton Symposium,\u003c\/em\u003e 1994, pp.149-69. S. McKendrick, ’Charles the Bold and the Romuléon: Reception, Loss and Influence’, in \u003cem\u003eKunst und Kultur-Transfer zür Zeit Karls des Kühnen\u003c\/em\u003e, eds N. Gramaccini \u0026amp; M. C. Schurr, 2012, pp.59-84). N. Reynaud in \u003cem\u003eLes Manuscrits à peintures en France 1440-1520,\u003c\/em\u003e 1993, p. 376. J. Lauga ‘Les Manuscrits liturgiques dans le diocèse de Langres à la fin du Moyen âge: les commanditaires et leurs artistes’, thesis, Paris 4, Sorbonne, 2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48643410493597,"sku":"263680","price":14000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/228183_1.jpg?v=1784212807","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/defeat-antiochus-king-syria-battle-magnesia-cut-from-wv3v34gk","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}