Addenda al corpus del Maestro del Decreto di Avignone (Avignone, BM, Ms. 659), attivo a Tolosa intorno alla metà del XIV secolo:  il Liber Sextus Washington DC, Library of Congress, Ms. 28

Maria Alessandra Bilotta

doi:10.6092/issn.2240-7251/16217

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Maria Alessandra Bilotta Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Maria Alessandra Bilotta is an art historian, medievalist, researcher of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University in Lisbon and integrated researcher at the Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM) of the same university. She holds the annual Diploma in Archiving from the Vatican Archives and the Diploma in Library Science from the Vatican School of Library Science; she also holds the European Diploma in Medieval Studies (Diplôme Européen d’Études Médiévales – DEEM) from FIDEM (International Federation of Institutes for Medieval Studies/Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Mediévales). From the academic year 2003-2004 until the academic year 2007-2008 he taught the course of Codicology II (decoration) at the same Diploma. She is Professora convidada at the Department of the History of Art of NOVA/FCSH. She is a member of the Ménéstrel network. Medievalists on the net: sources, works and online references as editor (she is the editor of the Portugal column and co-editor of the Illuminations and Medieval Lisbon columns). Currently, her research focuses on the medieval illuminated legal manuscripts from the South of France, on illuminated medieval legal manuscripts preserved in Portugal, and on the circulation of foreign legal manuscripts (particularly from southern France) in the Iberian Peninsula. Her research interests also include the study of medieval liturgical manuscripts, the analysis of artistic transfers, and the archaeological aspects of medieval manuscripts. Her doctoral thesis focused on the production of illuminated manuscripts for use of the papacy during the Middle Ages (6^th-13^th centuries) and was published by the Vatican Library in 2011 (M.A. Bilotta, I Libri dei papi – La Curia, il Laterano e la produzione manoscritta ad uso del papato nel Medioevo (secoli VI-XIII), Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca apostólica Vaticana, 2011 – Studi e Testi, 465). She was scientific curator of the following exhibitions: “Le parement d’autel des Cordeliers de Toulouse: Anatomie d’un chef d’oeuvre du XIVe siècle” (Toulouse, Musée Paul Dupuy, 13 March – 13 June 2012); “A Circulação do Direito na Europa Medieval: Manuscritos Jurídicos Europeus em Bibliotecas portuguesas” (Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, 26 of February – 31 of May of 2016). Among the several international workshops and conferences she has organised and coordinated are: “O estudo dos manuscritos iluminados e dos artefactos na Arqueologia da Idade Média: metodologias em comparação” (Lisbon, February 13, 2015); “Circulations juridiques et pratiques artistiques, intellectuelles et culturelles en Europe au Moyen Âge (XIIIe – XVe siècle) – Medieval Europe in Motion 3” (Lisbon, FCSH-UNL – National Library of Portugal, 25-27 February 2016). Since 2019 Maria Alessandra Bilotta teaches the Seminar "Problems in medieval studies" as part of the PhD Course in Medieval Studies organized by the NOVA University and the Aberta University of Lisbon; since 2020 she has been teaching Gothic Art History at the FCSH Department of Art History and the Master's Degree Seminar "Mental Categories: Images and Representations" at the History Department of the same Faculty; she was also Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Department of Cultural Heritage of the Church) and at the Pontifical Antonianum University (Higher School of Medieval and Franciscan Studies) in Rome.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-7251/16217

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Illuminated Manuscripts, Miniatures, Toulouse, Dominicans, Liber Sextus, Canon Law, Legal Manuscripts

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The manuscript presented in this contribution, a Liber Sextus preserved in the Library of Congress in Washington DC (Ms. 28), has so far been overlooked by art historians.The stylistic analysis of the illustrative and decorative apparatus of the manuscript, conducted in this study, makes it possible to attribute it to the anonymous illuminator called Master of the Avignon Decretum (from the most relevant manuscript illuminated by him, Avignon, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 659), as revealed by the physiognomies of the faces of the characters depicted in the manuscript.This illuminator, trained most probably in Toulouse and active between 1320 and 1350, likely had links with the Dominicans of the city.

Addenda to the Corpus of the Master of the Avignon Decretum (Avignon, BM, Ms. 659), Active in Toulouse around the Mid-Fourteenth Century: the Liber Sextus Washington DC, Library of Congress, Ms. 28

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