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Decorated initial from the Murano Gradual

Manuscript Cutting
1440-1450 (made)
Place of origin
Italy (made)

Illuminated manuscript fragment of initial 'P' in blue with two flowers, one red and the other blue on a gold background framed in a decorative shape


Object details

Categories
Manuscript Cutting
Manuscripts
Medieval and Renaissance
Object type
Manuscript cutting
TitleDecorated initial from the Murano Gradual
Materials and techniques
Pigment, ink and gold on parchment
Parchment
Ink
Pigments
Illumination
Writing
Brief description
Illuminated manuscript fragment of initial 'P', Italian, ca. 1400s
Physical description
Illuminated manuscript fragment of initial 'P' in blue with two flowers, one red and the other blue on a gold background framed in a decorative shape
Dimensions
  • Width: 63.5mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1924)
  • Length: 63.5mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1924)
Object history
Bought from James Tregaskis Esq, 66 Great Russell St. W. C. 1, received on 30 September 1924, together with seven other cuttings (CIRC.860-867-1924) (Information from the Departmental Circulation Register).
Bibliographic references
  • Sotheby’s London, Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 5 December 1994, lot 3 (Christopher De Hamel).
  • Jan Fabre - Illuminations, enluminures: trésors enluminés de France, Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 7 nov. 2013-10 février 2014 (Lille, 2013), no. 36 (other initials from the same source; entry by Maxence Hermant).
  • Zibordi, Margherita, ‘La raccolta di ritagli e fogli miniati del Museo Correr di Venezia: Un primo esame,’ Bolletino d’Arte 39–40 (2018), pp. 217–34.
  • Keene, Bryan C. and Azzarello, Stephanie, ‘Uno splendido enigma: Il Maestro del Graduale di Murano’, Alumina, 64, 2019, pp. 14–21.
  • Kidd, Peter, 'Missing Initials from the Murano Gradual, 2 May 2020, 'A Rediscovered Border from the Murano Gradual', 12 September 2020, 'Murano Gradual Initials [I], 15 January 2022, 'The Wildenstein "Mission to the Apostles"', 19 February 2022, 'The Murano Gradual Initials [II]: The Minor Initials', 6 March 2022, 'The Minor Initials of the Murano Gradual', 13 March 2022, 'Initials from the Murano Gradual, now at Reims', in Medieval Manuscripts Provenance blog [accessed 20/02/2023].
  • Azzarello, Stephanie and Keene, Bryan C., ‘Splendors of the Serenissima in a Digital Age: The Master of the Murano Gradual Reconsidered’, Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 6.2 (2021), pp. 223–67.
  • Azzarello, Stephanie, Reassembling the Sacred: The Murano Master and the Illuminated Choir Books of Camaldolese House of San Mattia di Murano (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 2021). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.77059.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.867-1924

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Record createdApril 17, 2013
Record URL
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