Inv. 3963
Carved inscription: 'IHESUS. NAZARENUS. REX. IUDEORUM. MISERERE. MEI. NICHOLAO/ IONHANNES. EVANGELISTA. ORA. P(RO). ME. IN. VITA. ISTA/ NICHOLAO. IONHADENSI. AVE. MARIA. GR(A)CIA. PLENA. DOMINUS. T(ECUM)/ FRATER. STES. LONGE. ISTE. NE. SUFFERAS. A. ME/ A. FACIE. DRACONIS. LOCUOR. MALIS. ET. NON. BONIS/ CRAS. DARO. NON. HOMINE. NEC. CRAS. NEC. ALTERA. DIE/ T.'
Roped border.
Sensi 2003: Italian, 15th century.
Sanchini 2012: Italian, 15th century.
KIK/IRPA 2013: c. 1422-c. 1482.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on all sides.
Provenance
Two competing arguments for the early provenance: according to historiographer Durante Dorio, it was found in the church of San Francesco in Foligno. According to historiographer Annibale degli Abbati-Olivieri (b. 1708, d. 1789), it was found by Monsignor Mario Maffei, bishop of Foligno (1741-1777), in the tomb of Niccolò Trinci (d. 1422), in the Cathedral of San Feliciano in Foligno, and it was donated by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Stoppani to Giovan Battista Passeri. Donated by Giovan Battista Passeri to Annibale degli Abbati Olivieri: his gift to the city of Pesaro in 1756.
Bibliography
A. Degli Abbati Olivieri, Di alcune antichità cristiane conservate in Pesaro nel Museo Olivieri (Pesaro, 1781), p. XXXV.
L. Sensi, 'Memorie Trinciane II: il 'bastone di comando' di Niccolò Trinci', in Bollettino storico della città di Foligno, XXVII-XXVIII, Accademia Fulginia di Lettere, Scienze e Arti (2003-2004), pp. 485-503.
Atlante del Gotico nelle Marche. Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino (Milan, 2004), I, pp. 118-119 (B. Montevecchi).
La stanza degli avori: preziose creazioni eburnee sacre e profane tra Pesaro e Urbino, exhibition catalogue, Pesaro, Museo Diocesano, 8 May-16 September 2012, pp. 26-27 (C. Sanchini).
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=obj2&LANGUAGE=0&OPAC_URL=&40003321=ON&LIMIT=50 [accessed 04/04/2013].
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