Leaves from a Cistercian Nunnery's Gradual

Much, though not all, of the following information (without images) can also be found in Regina Cermann, ‘Vom Hölzchen aufs Stöckchen: Neues zu einem codex discissus mit Sigismund Meisterlins “Augsburger Chronik” nebst Bausteinen zur Rekonstruktion der Graphischen Sammlung der Heidelberger von Portheim-Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Kunst’, in EC-Beiträge zur Erforschung deutschsprachiger Handschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Reihe I, Konferenzbeiträge und Studien, Band IX: Beiträge der Tagung Quelle und Deutung IX am 20. November 2024, ed. by Balázs Sára, Antiquitas, Byzantium, Renascentia, 59 (Eötvös-József-Collegium, 2025), pp. 43–156 (at no. 21 p. 87-88).

1.  Advent
   A priest raising his hands towards Christ enthroned, the border with four Cistercian nuns in an initial ‘A’(d te levavi)
   Formerly Victor Goldschmidt (d. 1933), Heidelberg.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Christmas
   The Nativity in an historiated initial
   Cited by Antiquariat Dr. Jörn Günther, Hamburg, Catalogue 6: Miniatures and illuminated leaves from the 12th to the 16th centuries (2002), under no. 20, ‘private collection’.
3. Easter
   The Resurrection in an initial ‘R’(esurrexi); folio ‘lxxiii’
   Formerly Victor Goldschmidt, Heidelberg; Carl Richartz, Amsterdam; his sale by Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, Auktion 161, 8 June 1977, lot 177 (Taf. 24) (‘Oberrhein, um 1320’); Jörn Günther, Catalogue 6 (as above), no. 20; Venator & Hanstein, Cologne, 26-27 September 2025, lot 454, and 19-21 March 2026, lot 931
   
   
   
   
   
4. The Dedication of a Church
   A bishop about to asperge a church, with Seven Cistercian nuns in an initial ‘T’(erribilis est), and four more nuns below; fol. ‘cxviii’
   Now: Dortmund, Museum für Kunst & Kulturgeschichte der Stadt (Inv. no. C 7022) See Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern, exh. cat., Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, ed. by J. Frings et al., Munich, 2005, no. 325
   
   
   
   
   
5. St Agnes (21 January)
   A kneeling priest adoring St Agnes in an initial ‘M’(e expectaverunt); folio ‘cxiiii’
   Formerly owned by Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig; bought from him in 1928 by Arthur Jubelt, Zeitz; sale at Sotheby’s, 18 June 1991, lot 27 (ill.) (‘North central Germany (perhaps Thuringia), early to mid-fourteenth century’); Antiquariat Dr. Jörn Günther, Hamburg, Katalog 5, Handschriften und Miniaturen aus dem deutschen Sprachgebiet (1997), no. 13 (full-page col. pl.) (‘Oberrhein (?), um 1320’)
   Now: private collection, Japan
   
   
   
   
   
6. St Agnes (21 January)
   A priest adoring St Agnes in an initial ‘M’(e expectaverunt), above a panel of Zodiac-inspired roundels
   Now: Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, PA (07.MS.650)
   
   
   
   
7. Common of Saints, Martyrs
   The beheading of a bishop in an initial ‘L’(etabitur iustus)
   Formerly Victor Goldschmidt, Heidelberg; Maggs, Bulletin 1 (1962), no. 3 (ills.) (‘Germany (Eichstatt ?), c. 1320’)
   
   
   
   
   
8. Common of Saints, Virgins
   Christie's, 7 July 2026, lot __