De Aviñón a Romanuevas reflexiones sobre las transferencias litúrgicas y artísticas tras el final del Cisma

Abstract

This article aims to extend and review our knowledge about the liturgical and artistictransfers that occurred between Avignon and Rome in the decades following the end ofthe Schism and that were decisive in the ritual and cultural configuration of the PapalCuria and its entourage in the first half of the 15 th century. To that purpose, I examine amanuscript ignored to date: the BCT 56-23, both from a material and a textual point ofview –it contains a pontifical followed by several additions (the Descriptio basilicaeVaticanae by Mallius Petrus, the Indulgentie ecclesiarum urbis Rome and some notesfor a crusading project against the Ottoman Empire in 1458)–. By doing so, and throughits comparison with other similar manuscripts, it has been possible to determine, firstly,that this codex can be fully related to the so-called forme remaniée (M. Andrieu) of theDurandus pontifical; and, secondly, that it was made in Basel around the 1430’scommissioned by a clergyman belonging to the papal entourage but also closelyconnected to the French southeast. Following the path of this manuscript, my studyconcludes that the process of exchanges and transfers between Avignon and Rome afterthe Schism was not unidirectional or unique, but took the form of a network of complexcontacts, prolonged in time and space, in which foreign influences –even from theNetherlands– also played a decisive role. But it will only be possible to reconstruct thisprocess in its entirety from the analysis of manuscripts that have survive to date.