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Manuscript Cutting

ca. 1490 (made)

Cut-out border from a Choirbook; Italy; ca 1490. A duplicate number MS.1201 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.

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Brief description
Cut-out border from a Choirbook; Italy; ca 1490. A duplicate number MS.1201 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.
Object history
Transferred from the Art Museum on 5 June 1864, recorded as ‘Illuminations transferred from Art Museum, 17 pieces transferred from Mr R[obinson]’ (now Museum nos 4132-4149). Information from Register of Drawings.
Historical context
Data taken from notes compiled by Rowan Watson. The full text of the entry is as follows:

'4141 (MS 1201)
CHOIR BOOK
Cut-out border (ornamental column of acanthus leaves, with mask, on burnished gold ground)

Italy. s. 1490
275 x 50 mm

Transferred from the Art Museum, 5 June 1864
Pub: 1908 cat, 96; 1923 cat, 89'
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Accession number
4141

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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