Accession number
MS M.1260
Object title
Female Saint Discovering Buried Treasure (Morgan Library & Museum. MS M. 1260).
Created
France, possibly Paris, ca. 1900-1925
Credit line
Gift of Jörn Günther Rare Books in honor of Roger S. Wieck on the occasion of the Morgan's Centennial, 2025.
Description
1 cutting : vellum, ill. ; 280 x 200 mm
Provenance
Switzerland, private collection; gift of Jörn Günther Rare Books in 2025.
Notes
Tempura, ink, and burnished gold on vellum.
Decoration: At center, a female saint with a burnished gold halo stands before a chest freshly unearthed by a man with a shovel. Flanking the sait are figures in courtly dress, all set before a mountainous landscape with a church, trees, and a distant castle. The burnished gold background was likely intentionally crackled to appear aged.
On verso, remnants of three lines of text and musical notation on five-line staves in red ink.
The minature is painted on vellum leaves that were likely removed from a fifteenth-century antiphonary. The underlying text on the recto has been scraped off; however, some traces of the text remain on the verso.
Decoration: At center, a female saint with a burnished gold halo stands before a chest freshly unearthed by a man with a shovel. Flanking the sait are figures in courtly dress, all set before a mountainous landscape with a church, trees, and a distant castle. The burnished gold background was likely intentionally crackled to appear aged.
On verso, remnants of three lines of text and musical notation on five-line staves in red ink.
The minature is painted on vellum leaves that were likely removed from a fifteenth-century antiphonary. The underlying text on the recto has been scraped off; however, some traces of the text remain on the verso.
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