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Leaf from a Dominican Antiphoner

Manuscript Cutting
1300-1325 (made)
Place of origin
Southern Netherlands (made)
Flanders (made)
France (made)

Feast of the Invention of the True Cross.
Recto: historiated initial C depicting the Invention of the Cross, with St Helena and another female saint.
Rubric: In inventione sancte crucis ad Vesperas super Psalmos Antiphona. Crucem sancta subiit...
7 lines of music (staves of 4 red lines, 24 mm) and text. Square notation.

Object details

Categories
Medieval and Renaissance
Manuscript Cutting
Manuscripts
Christianity
Religion
Books
Music
Object type
Manuscript cutting
TitleLeaf from a Dominican Antiphoner
Materials and techniques
Parchment
Pigments
Ink
Illumination
Writing
Brief description
Leaf from Antiphoner with historiated initial C depicting the Invention of the Cross, Northern France or Southern Netherlands, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Physical description
Feast of the Invention of the True Cross.
Recto: historiated initial C depicting the Invention of the Cross, with St Helena and another female saint.
Rubric: In inventione sancte crucis ad Vesperas super Psalmos Antiphona. Crucem sancta subiit...
7 lines of music (staves of 4 red lines, 24 mm) and text. Square notation.
Dimensions
  • Height: 487mm
  • Width: 322mm
  • Text block height: 340mm
  • Text block width: 225mm
  • Stave height: 24mm
Production typeUnique
Object history
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). Price paid for this leaf, together with 8997G and H: £1.1s.0d. Information from Register of Drawings.
A duplicate number MS.6 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.

Cuttings from the same manuscript in the V&A collection: Museum nos 8997A, 8997B, 8997C, 8997D, 8997E, 8997F, 8997G, 8997H.

Cuttings from the same manuscript in other collections: London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 25; 3 leaves formerly Yates Thompson MS LXXXIIIA (see Descriptive Catalogue 1907).
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts : Part II, Miniatures, leaves, and cuttings, by S.C. Cockerell and E.F. Strange (London: HMSO, 1908, 1st edition). pp. 9-10.
  • Catalogue of Miniatures, Leaves, and Cuttings from Illuminated Manuscripts. Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, by S.C. Cockerell and C. Harcourt Smith (London: HMSO, 1923, 2nd edition). pp. 7-8.
  • A Descriptive Catalogue of Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts, Nos. LXXV to XCIV (Replacing Twenty Discarded from the Original Hundred) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson, Cambridge: University Press, 1907. no. LXXXIIIa pp. 75-78 (cuttings from same manuscript).
  • Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997). no. 83 (BL cutting).
  • Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002). no. 48 (BL cutting).
Other number
6 - Cancelled number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
8997F

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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