Leaf from a Gradual
Manuscript Cutting
1330s (made)
1330s (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Leaf written on both sides with 5 lines of music (staves of 5 red lines, square notation) and text. Rubrics in red.
2-line historiated initial N with Christ standing, holding a cross. Foliate decoration of acanthus leaf extending into the margin.
Text: 'Nos autem gloriari oportet in cruce...'.
2-line historiated initial N with Christ standing, holding a cross. Foliate decoration of acanthus leaf extending into the margin.
Text: 'Nos autem gloriari oportet in cruce...'.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Leaf from a Gradual |
| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | Leaf from a Gradual with Christ, Italian (Umbria, probably Perugia), 1330s. |
| Physical description | Leaf written on both sides with 5 lines of music (staves of 5 red lines, square notation) and text. Rubrics in red. 2-line historiated initial N with Christ standing, holding a cross. Foliate decoration of acanthus leaf extending into the margin. Text: 'Nos autem gloriari oportet in cruce...'. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Object history | Part of a group of cuttings which were bought for £38.9.0 from Carl Ewald Rappaport in Rome in 1911, entered in the register on 22 March 1911 (now E.371 to 378-1911). Another group purchased at the same time went into circulation (now CIRC.148 to 162-1911) Cuttings from the same manuscript in the V&A collection: E.376-1911, Circ. 150-1911, Circ. 151-1911. |
| Associated objects | |
| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1911 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.151-1911 |
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| Record created | April 25, 2016 |
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