Historiated initial R with Resurrection, Eastern Netherlands (Gelderland or Western Germany), 1st half of the 14th century.

Historiated initial R with Resurrection with Christ above and the three sleeping soldiers in armour below. All on burnished gold ground.Cut-out historiated initial R (Christ, bearing white banner with black "maltese" cross stepping out of tomb over three sleeping soldiers) ; grotesques within initial and in border
This initial would have been the first letter of the the beginning of the introit for Easter, ‘Resurrexi…’ ('I am risen...').

Part of cuttings purchased in batches from William Henry James Weale in 1883, 95 on 9 April 1883, 258 on 17 April 1883, 20 on 20 February, for the total sum of £96.7.2 (now Museum nos 8972-9042).
A duplicate number MS.191 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.

Cuttings from the same manuscript in the V&A collection: Museum nos 8990A, 8990B, 9005A, 9005B.

Cuttings from the same manuscript in other collections: Christie's London, 6 December 1989, lot 1; formerly Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne, and later Jörn Günther Antiquariat, Catalogue 6 (2002), no.27; Sotheby's, 3 December 2013, part of lot 17, and subsequently De Brailes, Catalogue One, no.I and Catalogue Two, no.II; McCarthy Collection, BM1606 and 1607 (see Kidd 2016 and Kidd 2019, no. 23).

9005B