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Add MS 37472, f 3
- Record Id:
- 040-003389677
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002053831
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100051439346.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165366789.0x000005
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 37472, f 3
- Title:
- A cutting from a Gradual
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
f. 3r: A historiated initial 'O' in colours and gold, of Romauld enthroned with a bishop saint (probably Augustine) and monastic saints John Gualbert (top right), Maurus and Placidus in Camaldolese habits. The initial 'O' introduced the introit to the Mass for the feast of Saint Romauld (19 June, according to the Camaldolese calendar): "Os justi meditabitur sapientam".
f. 3v: Four four-line staves of musical notation and text, : 'Amen dico vobis / quod uni ex minimis me / is fecistis michi fecistis / venite benedicti patris' with an initial 'A' in red with filigree decoration in blue.
Illumination attributed to Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (b. 1339, d. 5 October 1399).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002053831
040-003389677 - Is part of:
- Add MS 37472 : Seven cuttings from illuminated manuscripts
Add MS 37472, f 3 : A cutting from a Gradual - Hierarchy:
- 032-002053831[0003]/040-003389677
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 37472
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment cutting in a window mount
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165149155.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1370
- End Date:
- 1375
- Date Range:
- c. 1371 - c. 1374
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285-295 mm.
Foliation: foliated as 'f. 3' and boxed with six other cuttings, Additional MS 37472, ff. 1-2, 4-7.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: A parchment in a double-sided window mount, kept in a box.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance:
The Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence: the initial was cut from missing f. 90 of Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Cod. Cor. 2, a volume of a Gradual (Sanctorale), dated 26 February 1370 (1371, according to the modern calendar); illumination of the Gradual probably commenced after this date and was most likely completed by 1374, in time for use in the officiation of the monastery's new choir.
An anonymous 19th-century English owner: inscribed on mount; 'Puccio Capanna', and 'Tommaso Giottinese b. 1324 dies 1356 / Puccio Capanna Pl CXII A...'.
Walter Benjamin Tiffin (b. 1795, d. 1877), London art dealer and publisher: purchased from him by the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum on 28 June 1854.
Transferred to the British Museum Department of Manuscripts, 26 February 1907.
- Publications:
- George R. Bent, Monastic Art in Lorenzo Monaco's Florence: Painting and Patronage in Santa Maria degli Angeli, 1300-1415 (Lewiston; Queenston; Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2006, fig. 103.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)