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Archangel Michael transfixing Satan.

Accession number
MS M.1129
Object title
Archangel Michael transfixing Satan.
Created
Venice, Italy, ca. 1420
Credit line
Gift of Suzanne A. Rosenborg, 2002.
Description
1 single leaf (cutting), matted : vellum, ill. ; 218 x 122 mm
Provenance
Parent manuscript: a multi-volume Gradual (of at least four tomes) made for the Camaldolese church of San Mattia in Murano, Venice, in the 1420s, that survives in Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, MS 78 F.1 (Temporale: Easter to Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost), in Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, MS AB. XVIII, 28 (Temporale: First Sunday in Advent to Second Sunday in Lent), and in numerous dispersed cuttings. This cutting: about 1955-1961, estate of Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955); before 1978, New York, Stern Collection; Suzanne A. Rosenborg; gifted to the Morgan Library & Museum in 2002.
Notes
Ms. single leaf (cutting) of an historiated initial B from a Gradual; written and illuminated in Venice, Italy, ca. 1420.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial B depicting St. Michael vanquishing the devil. The initial B begins the Introit, "Benedicite Dominum omnes angeli eius ...," for the Feast of St. Michael on 29 September. The reverse side is pasted down.
Artist: Master of the Murano Gradual; previously attributed to Belbello da Pavia. For a list of dispersed cuttings from the same parent MS, see Azzarello and Keene 2021.
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