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Accession number:
MS M.1205
Title:
Leaf from a Gradual with an historiated initial "B" with St. Michael
Created:
Possibly Bologna, Italy, ca. 1300
Credit:
Gift of Lucy Adams in memory of George B. Adams, 2017.
Description:
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; sheet: 501 x 356 mm; initial: 128 x 115 mm
Provenance:
London, Christie's, 20 June 1990, lot 9 (unsold); London, Christie's, 25 November 1992, lot 2, to George B. Abrams (1930-2011), Lucy Adams (b. 1931); gift of Lucy Adams in memory of George B. Adams, 2017.
Notes:
Single leaf from a Gradual (originally folio 81), possibly written and illuminated in Bologna, ca. 1300.
Historiated initial "B" (of Benedicite [Bless]), the beginning of the Introit for the Mass for the feast of the dedication of St. Michael (29 September).
Illustration: St. Michael the Archangel holding a floriated spear and an orb.
Musical notation: 4 and 5 4-line staves in red ink, square notation.
Script:
Gothic rotunda
Language:
Latin
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