Leaf from a Dominican Antiphoner

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Place of origin

Southern Netherlands (made)

Flanders (made)

France (made)

Feast of St Thomas Aquinas
Recto:
Historiated initial F depicting St Thomas Aquinas lecturing to 4 Dominicans and 2 laymen). The leaf was added to the original manuscript after 1323, the year of Aquinas's canonisation.
Rubrics: In festo beati Thome de Aquino ordinis predicatorum ad Vesperas super psalmos. Antiphona'. Antiphon: 'Felix Thomas doctor ecclesie...'
Verso: Ad matutinas Invitatorium.
7 lines of music (staves of 4 red lines, 24 mm) and text.

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Categories	Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cutting Manuscripts Christianity Religion Books Music
Object type	Manuscript cutting
Title	Leaf from a Dominican Antiphoner
Materials and techniques	Parchment Pigments Ink Illumination Writing
Brief description	Leaf from Antiphoner with historiated initial F depicting St Thomas Aquinas lecturing to four Dominicans and two laymen, Northern France or Southern Netherlands, added after 1323 (the year of Aquinas's canonisation).
Physical description	Feast of St Thomas Aquinas Recto: Historiated initial F depicting St Thomas Aquinas lecturing to 4 Dominicans and 2 laymen). The leaf was added to the original manuscript after 1323, the year of Aquinas's canonisation. Rubrics: In festo beati Thome de Aquino ordinis predicatorum ad Vesperas super psalmos. Antiphona'. Antiphon: 'Felix Thomas doctor ecclesie...' Verso: Ad matutinas Invitatorium. 7 lines of music (staves of 4 red lines, 24 mm) and text.
Dimensions	Height: 485mm Width: 320mm Text block height: 340mm Text block width: 225mm Stave height: 24mm
Production type	Unique
Gallery label	Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A, 08/09/2021 - 26/06/2022, rooms 88A-90 Devotion to the Saints The cult of the saints occupied a large part of the church calendar. Some were widely worshipped, while others were specific to a particular community or geographical area. The feast of the Translation of St Dominic on 24 May commemorated the move of the saint’s body to a grander tomb in 1233, twelve years after his death [left]. The inclusion of this feast and that of St Thomas Aquinas [right], a prominent Dominican friar, means that this antiphonary was made for a Dominican congregation. Leaves with initial ‘A’ with Translation of St Dominic and initial ‘F’ with St Thomas Aquinas teaching, from a Dominican antiphonary Southern Netherlands or Eastern France, about 1300–25 Ink, gold, watercolour and bodycolour on parchment Museum nos. 8997G and 8997E
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 8997D: 13s. Information from Register of Drawings. A duplicate number MS.5 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 (Resurrection); 3 leaves formerly Yates Thompson MS LXXXIIIA (see Descriptive Catalogue 1907).
Associated objects	8997A (Object) 8997B (Object) 8997C (Object) 8997D (Object) 8997F (Object) 8997G (Object) 8997H (Object)
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	5 - Cancelled number
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	8997E

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1028916/leaf-from-a-dominican-antiphoner-manuscript-cutting/

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