Manuscript Cutting
ca. 1480 (illuminated)
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In the 19th century the South Kensington Museum gathered examples of illumination for students to copy. This was a new kind of collection. It was unlike the encyclopedic historic collections of the British Museum or the Bodleian Library in Oxford. From the beginning, the Museum tended to buy ready-made collections. This example is from a portfolio of cuttings from an Italian choirbook. The Museum bought it from J. & W. Boone in 1866 for £15.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Water-based pigments, gilding and ink on parchment |
| Brief description | Cut-out foliate ornament. Italy. 15th century, attributed to Domenico Morone. A duplicate number MS.1174 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled. |
| Physical description | Specimen of a manuscript |
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| Historical context | Data taken from notes compiled by Rowan Watson. The full text of the entry is as follows: 335.9 4918.8 (MS 1174) CHOIR Book? Cut-out foliate ornament Italy. Late 15th century 175 x 40 mm. From an album containing 4916-4928 bought for £15 from J & W Boone, 1866' |
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| Summary | In the 19th century the South Kensington Museum gathered examples of illumination for students to copy. This was a new kind of collection. It was unlike the encyclopedic historic collections of the British Museum or the Bodleian Library in Oxford. From the beginning, the Museum tended to buy ready-made collections. This example is from a portfolio of cuttings from an Italian choirbook. The Museum bought it from J. & W. Boone in 1866 for £15. |
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| 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. 26, fig. 2 |
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| Accession number | 4918:8 |
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| Record created | February 25, 2004 |
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