Accession number
MS M.558.5
Object title
Initial C with a three-headed Trinity, cutting from a 15th century Italian choir book (MS M.558 E).
Display Date
1450-1474.
Created
Milan, Italy, 1450-1474.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1912.
Description
1 leaf (cutting), matted : vellum, ill. ; 91 x 82 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Valdimir G. Simkhovitch in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. cutting from a choir book; written and illuminated in Milan, Italy, in the third quarter of the 15th century.
Text on verso is not yet deciphered.
Musical notation: 4-line stave in red ink, with square notes.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial C with a three-headed Trinity.
Artist: perhaps a collaborator of Girolamo da Milano, the Olivetan Master.
Matted with Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.558.3 and Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.558.4.
Text on verso is not yet deciphered.
Musical notation: 4-line stave in red ink, with square notes.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial C with a three-headed Trinity.
Artist: perhaps a collaborator of Girolamo da Milano, the Olivetan Master.
Matted with Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.558.3 and Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.558.4.
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textura
Language
Latin
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