Accession number:
MS M.1189
Title:
Historiated initial E: Christ Carrying the Cross.
Created:
France, Tours, ca. 1510-1515.
Credit:
Purchased with a grant from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation, 2014.
Description:
1 single leaf (cutting), matted : vellum, ill. ; 150 x 135 mm
Provenance:
The parent codex of the cutting is not known and no other fragments from it have so far been identified; this cutting was bought by the Morgan in Angers, Chauviré et Courant, 10-11 December 2013, lot 347.
Notes:
An historiated in initial "E" from an Antiphonary depicting Christ Carrying the Cross, illuminated by the Master of Claude de France in Tours, between 1510 and 1515.
Decoration: historiated initial with decorated border.
Artist: Master of Claude de France.
This cutting joins other Morgan illuminations by the Master of Claude de France: MSS M.1051, M.1143, M.1166, M.1171.
Script:
Littera gothica textualis rotunda italiana (Italian Gothic book script)
Language:
Latin
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