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Decorated initial from the Murano Gradual

Manuscript Cutting
late 15th century (made)
Place of origin
Italy (made)

Initial from a Choirbook; Italian; late 15th century


Object details

Categories
Manuscript Cutting
Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance
Object type
Manuscript cutting
TitleDecorated initial from the Murano Gradual
Materials and techniques
Parchment
Ink
Pigments
Gold
Illumination
Brief description
Initial from a Choirbook; Italian; late 15th century
Bibliographic references
  • Sotheby’s London, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 5 December 1994, lot 3 (Christopher De Hamel).
  • Jan Fabre - Illuminations, enluminures: trésors enluminés de France, Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 7 nov. 2013-10 février 2014 (Lille, 2013), no. 36 (other initials from the same source; entry by Maxence Hermant).
  • Zibordi, Margherita, ‘La raccolta di ritagli e fogli miniati del Museo Correr di Venezia: Un primo esame,’ Bolletino d’Arte 39–40 (2018), pp. 217–34.
  • Keene, Bryan C. and Azzarello, Stephanie, ‘Uno splendido enigma: Il Maestro del Graduale di Murano’, Alumina, 64, 2019, pp. 14–21.
  • Kidd, Peter, 'Missing Initials from the Murano Gradual, 2 May 2020, 'A Rediscovered Border from the Murano Gradual', 12 September 2020, 'Murano Gradual Initials [I], 15 January 2022, 'The Wildenstein "Mission to the Apostles"', 19 February 2022, 'The Murano Gradual Initials [II]: The Minor Initials', 6 March 2022, 'The Minor Initials of the Murano Gradual', 13 March 2022, 'Initials from the Murano Gradual, now at Reims', in Medieval Manuscripts Provenance blog [accessed 20/02/2023].
  • Azzarello, Stephanie and Keene, Bryan C., ‘Splendors of the Serenissima in a Digital Age: The Master of the Murano Gradual Reconsidered’, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 6.2 (2021), pp. 223–67.
  • Azzarello, Stephanie, Reassembling the Sacred: The Murano Master and the Illuminated Choir Books of Camaldolese House of San Mattia di Murano (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 2021). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.77059.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
2857

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O502051/decorated-initial-from-the-murano-manuscript-cutting/
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