Accession number
MS M.1228
Object title
I Sing of a Maiden That is Makeless.
Created
England, London, 1959
Binding
In card wrapper.
Credit line
Gift of Caroline F. Schimmel in honor of John Bidwell and Roger S. Wieck, 2021.
Description
2 leaves (a bifolio) : vellum ; 205 x 145 mm (8 x 5 3/4 inches)
Provenance
Created by Heather Child in 1959; bought from her by Stuart Schimmel (1925-2013); Caroline F. Schimmel.
Notes
This “Christmas folder” is the only example of Child's calligraphy in the collection; it joins other examples of Gothic-revival calligraphy and illumination in the department's holdings.
The title derives from the first line of the carol.
"I Sing of a Maiden That is Makeless" is a fifteenth-century English Christmas carol.
Decoration: a gilt pen-and-ink drawing of the Virgin and Child based on a thirteenth-century altarpiece in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence.
The title derives from the first line of the carol.
"I Sing of a Maiden That is Makeless" is a fifteenth-century English Christmas carol.
Decoration: a gilt pen-and-ink drawing of the Virgin and Child based on a thirteenth-century altarpiece in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence.
Script
Humanistic book script
Language
Middle English
Century
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