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Manuscript Cutting

ca. 1520 (made)

Cut-out decorated initial A; Netherlands (South); ca 1520


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Brief description
Cut-out decorated initial A; Netherlands (South); ca 1520
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).
Historical context
Data taken from notes compiled by Rowan Watson. The full text of the entry is as follows:

'29.10/1
9002 B
LETTER A
Cut-out decorated initial A (letter-shape of brushed gold pruned branches and sticks laid as crosses, pink violet with two white butterflies, red carnation and four bees, on blue ground)

Rubric from an Antiphoner visible: In festo sancti Calixti pape et mart'; Simon and Jude; Vigil of All Saints; Communion, Gradual and Introit indicated

NL (South) c. 1520
90 x 90 mm.

Bought from Weale, 1883, 5s.
1923 cat, 16'
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Accession number
9002B

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