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Manuscript Cutting

ca. 1500 (made)

Cut-out decoration from a Choirbook with grotesque face in profile biting a fruit that extends from acanthus ornament in lower margin; Germany; ca 1500

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Brief description
Cut-out decoration from a Choirbook with grotesque face in profile biting a fruit that extends from acanthus ornament in lower margin; Germany; ca 1500
Object history
Cuttings from the same manuscript in the V&A collection: Museum nos 3053, 3066, 3067, 3068.
Historical context
Data taken from notes compiled by Rowan Watson. The full text of the entry is as follows:

'Cat. no. 20.2
3066 (MS 59)
CHOIR BOOK
Cut-out decoration with grotesque face in profile biting a fruit that extends from acanthus ornament in lower margin

Text ; [Ev]ovae

Germany c. 1550
125 x 160 mm
part of 1 line of music (staves of 4 lines, 24 mm) and Text visible; Hufnagel notation

Annotated by Art Museum "No. 39, 1/11/[18]58; transferred from Art Museum, 1863
Pub; 11908 cat, 17; 1923 cat, 14'
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3066

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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