McCarthy Catalogue vol. I (Italian and Byzantine Illuminations)

I provided a number of addenda and corrigenda to vol. I of the McCarthy catalogue on pp. 348–50 of vol. III, and will record more here as I become aware of them. Contributions from readers are welcome.

• No. 2. 9th/10th-cent. Lectionary leaf
• Formerly Maggs Bros Ltd, European Bulletin No. 9: European Miniatures and  Illumination (1975), no. 4 (Italy, 10th century) [Added 7 July 2023].
• A sister-leaf was in the Colker sale at Christie's, online sale 21173, 12 December 2022, lot 5. Archived here. [Added 11 April 2023]
  It was previously Maggs Bros Ltd, Catalogue 1002: Western Text Hands from the Late 9th to the Early 14th Century (London, 1980), no. 5 and pl. IV ("Italy, first half tenth century") [Added 7 July 2023].
• No. 5. Initial 'H' from an Atlantic Bible
• As noted by me in the Addenda to vol. III, this belonged to Arnold Mettler of St Gall and was sold at Parke-Berent, NYC,  30 Nov. 1948, lot 235 (ill.). Sale by Freeman's & Hindman, Chicago, 27 June 2024, lot 1 [archived here and here] [Added 12 June 2024]
  
• No. 8a. Initial 'S' from De patriarchis
• As noted by me in the Addenda to vol. III, this belonged to James Stevens Cox (d. 1997). Sale by Freeman's & Hindman, Chicago, 27 June 2024, lot 2 [archived here and here] [Added 12 June 2024]
• No. 12c. Initial 'L' from an Atlantic Bible
• Sale by Freeman's & Hindman, Chicago, 27 June 2024, lot 3 [archived here and here] [Added 12 June 2024]
  
• Nos. 13a, d, g. Iniitals 'E', 'N', and 'H' from an Atlanctic Bible
• Sale by Freeman's & Hindman, Chicago, 27 June 2024, lot 4 [archived here and here] [Added 12 June 2024]
• No. 14. Initial 'O' on a fragment of a Life of St Ambrose
• Sale by Freeman's & Hindman, Chicago, 27 June 2024, lot 5 [archived here and here] [Added 12 June 2024]
• No. 18. Cuttings from a collection of saints' lives, illuminated by the Master of Monza
• A previously unrecognised cutting of St Paul is Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, A. 54. The incipit is "Paulus apostolus post sui conuersionem multas persecutiones perpessus est ..."; the text continues on the verso. I owe my knowledge of it to the kindness of Beatrice Alai. [Added 13 Sept. 2022]
• Item (q): sold at Christie's, 3 June 1998, lot 1 [Added 11 April 2023]
• Item (r): sold at Christie's, 3 June 1998, lot 2 [Added 11 April 2023]
• No. 20e. Cutting from an Atlantic Bible
• Sale by Freeman's & Hindman, Chicago, 27 June 2024, lot 6 [archived here and here] [Added 12 June 2024]
• No. 21. Initial "A" from a Gradual
• Sotheby's, 5 December 1994, lot 34  [Added 11 April 2023]
• No. 24. Two leaves from an Antiphonary
• (b) Sotheby's, 22 June 1993, lot 48 [Added 11 April 2023]
• No. 26. Genesis leaf from a Bible
• Formerly Otto Seitz; sold by Münchener Kunstversteigerungshaus Adolf Weinmüller, Katalog 91: Buchminiaturen und Handzeichnungen aus älterer und neuerer Zeit, 9-10 March 1939, lot 2 (ill.) [Added 11 April 2023]
• No. 27. Leaf with St Augustine in a historiated initial
  
• Sale by Freeman's & Hindman, Chicago, 27 June 2024, lot 7 [archived here and here] [Added 12 June 2024]
• No. 37. Niccolò di Giacomo leaf
• The LACMA, McCarthy, and Christie's-Sotheby's leaves were, respectively, nos. 51, 52, and 53 in de Ricci, 1913 [Added 11 April 2023]
• No. 42b. 
• Sale by Freeman's & Hindman, Chicago, 27 June 2024, lot 8 [archived here and here] [Added 12 June 2024]
• No. 54. Master of Sant'Alessio in Bigiano
• See The Burke Collection of Italian Manuscript Paintings, ed. by Sandra Hindman and Federica Toniolo (London, 2021), no. 5 [Added 11 April 2023]
• No. 57. Follower of Cimabue
• The McCarthy leaf was fol. 84 and the ex-Günther leaf fol. 93 [Added 11 April 2023]
• No. 64. Presentation in the Temple
• Sotheby's, 20 June 1995, lot 25 [Added 11 April 2023]

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