Leaf from a Gradual
Manuscript Leaf
mid 15th century (illuminated)
mid 15th century (illuminated)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
This is a page from a Gradual. The Gradual contained the musical parts of the Missal, the book containing the services of the Mass. This page is for the Feast of St Andrew, who was one of Christ's Apostles. The initial D at the top of the page shows Christ calling him. The initial is historiated (that is, with a figurative picture, istoire being the term for a story) and is a visual reference to the content of the music. The manuscript was possibly made for an Augustinian monastery in Verona, such as Santa Maria in Organo.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Leaf from a Gradual |
| Materials and techniques | Water-based pigments, gilding and ink on parchment |
| Brief description | Leaf from a Gradual (Feast of St Andrew) with historiated initial D showing Christ calling St Andrew. Italian (Verona?), mid-15th century A duplicate number MS.1019 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled. |
| Physical description | Specimen of a manuscript |
| Dimensions |
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| Object history | Bought in 1858 from Heinrich Karl Nold in Nuremberg. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | This is a page from a Gradual. The Gradual contained the musical parts of the Missal, the book containing the services of the Mass. This page is for the Feast of St Andrew, who was one of Christ's Apostles. The initial D at the top of the page shows Christ calling him. The initial is historiated (that is, with a figurative picture, istoire being the term for a story) and is a visual reference to the content of the music. The manuscript was possibly made for an Augustinian monastery in Verona, such as Santa Maria in Organo. |
| Bibliographic reference | Watson, Rowan. Educators, Collectors, Fragments and the "Illuminated" Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Nineteenth Century. In: Linda L. Brownrigg and Margaret M. Smith, eds. Interpreting and Collecting Fragments of Medieval Books. Los Altos Hills: Anderson Lovelace; London: Red Gull Press, 2000. pp. 21-46, ill. ISBN 0962637262 (hbk); 0962637270 (pbk).
p. 23, fig. 1 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 433 |
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| Record created | February 24, 2004 |
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