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https://doi.org/10.31745/s.70.3
PRINTED BREVIARIES OF ANDRIJA PALTAŠIĆ AND DOBRIĆ DOBRIĆEVIĆ (BONINUS DE BONINIS) AND THEIR ART EQUIPMENT
Milan PELC
orcid.org/0000-0001-8029-4157
; Institut za povijest umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Two printers of Croatian origin, Andrija Paltašić in Venice and Dobrić Dobrićević (Boninus de Boninis) in Verona, were among the first to publish printed editions of the Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Paltašić 1478, Dobrićević 1481. Dobrićević’s edition is the first known woodcut-illustrated edition of the office. Later on, he published three more illustrated editions of Virgin Mary's Office in Lyon. This makes his contributions to the history of breviary printing more significant than those by Paltašić. Dobričević's four office editions (1481, two in 1499, and one in 1501) consistently reflect the Italian and French traditions in terms of their content, iconography and visual art. The Verona edition is in complete correspondence with the Italian tradition, while the French tradition is reflected in his Lyon editions. The breviaries modelled on the French tradition are more extensive in their content compared to the Italian ones. They contain a larger number of New Testament texts and accompanying illustrations from the lives of Jesus and Mary. This makes the artistic, iconographic and decorative value of the French editions much more significant than that of the Italian editions. In this paper special attention is given to a copy of Dobričević’s Office from 20 March 1499, printed on parchment, which originates from Emmanuele Cicogna’s collection and is currently kept in the Museo Correr Library in Venice. Seeing as the copy had been damaged, Cicogna (according to his own handwritten notes on the inside cover) added pages and images from another copy of the same edition printed on paper, which is currently kept in fragments in the National Library of St Mark's in Venice. The parchment copy from Cicogna’s collection provides a unique testimony of the interactive relationship between office users and its illustrations. Notably, some of the images have been partially erased due to frequent touching and, presumably, devout kissing. The most worn out pages are the ones containing the most popular prayers to the Madonna: Obsecro te and O intemerata, which contain an image of Mary with baby Jesus in her lap; a page containing a depiction of the Crucifixion on Golgotha; and one containing an illustration of Saint Apollonia, the patron saint of those suffering from toothache. Additionally, the figure of Satan was systematically erased in images depicting the Temptation of Christ. In this way, the devout user could express his anger against the tempter, just as unsophisticated observes in churches did by defacing his images in frescoes or covering them in derogatory words. Thus, Cicogna's damaged and supplemented copy points to the forms of practical devotion that the Office was used for.
Ključne riječi
Dobrić Dobrićević (Boninus de Boninis); Andrija Paltašić; Nicolaus Jenson; Illustrations of the Office of Blessed Virgin Mary
Hrčak ID:
231688
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Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2019.
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