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Leaf from a Missal

Manuscript Cutting
early 14th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Verso: 6-line historiated initial F showing St Anne holding the Virgin in her arms), 4-line decorated initial S, 3-line and 2-line initial in red and blue with contrasting penwork flourishing.
Incipit: Famulis tuis quesumus domine celestis...
Mass for the Nativity of the Virgin (8 Sept.).
Rubrics for SS Felix and Audactius, Duodecim fratres, Egidio conf and abbot; Nativity of the Virgin, Commemoration of St Adrian.
27 lines on 2 columns.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleLeaf from a Missal
Materials and techniques
Brief description
Leaf from a Missal, with historiated initial F showing St Anne holding the Virgin, Perugia, early 14th century. A duplicate number MS.1483 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.
Physical description
Verso: 6-line historiated initial F showing St Anne holding the Virgin in her arms), 4-line decorated initial S, 3-line and 2-line initial in red and blue with contrasting penwork flourishing.
Incipit: Famulis tuis quesumus domine celestis...
Mass for the Nativity of the Virgin (8 Sept.).
Rubrics for SS Felix and Audactius, Duodecim fratres, Egidio conf and abbot; Nativity of the Virgin, Commemoration of St Adrian.
27 lines on 2 columns.
Dimensions
  • Height: 350mm
  • Width: 245mm
  • Text block height: 225mm
  • Text block width: 170mm
Production typeUnique
Object history
Part of a group of cuttings which were bought for £38.9.0 from Carl Ewald Rappaport in Rome in 1911 (his stamp on the leaf), entered in the register on 22 March 1911 (now E.371-378-1911).
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1911, London, Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office 1912
  • 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). p. 75.
  • Welch, A., Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria, Leiden: Brill, 2015. p. 33 (E.371-1911, as a ‘cut-out initial' of the Nativity of the Virgin).
Other number
1483 - Cancelled number
Collection
Accession number
E.371-1911

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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