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Gradual cutting (MS M.718).

Accession number
MS M.718
Object title
Gradual cutting (MS M.718).
Created
Florence, Italy, 1392-1399.
Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Description
1 leaf, matted : vellum, ill. ; 160 x 150 mm
Provenance
Made at Santa Maria degli Angeli Monastery in Florence, probably during the abbacy of Paolo Venier (who became abbot in 1392) for the Monastery of San Michele a Murano. M.653.1-5: Bromley-Davenport Collection; his sale (London, Sotheby's, May 10, 1907, lot 181) to Quaritch; purchased from Maggs Bros., 1927.
Notes
One of 23 cuttings from a gradual (MS M.478.1-17, MS M.653.1-5, M.718); written and illuminated in Florence, Italy, in the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, between 1392 and 1399.
Decoration: historiated inital D with a half-length prophet figure.
Artist: Silvestro, dei Gherarducci.
Scribe: according to Vasari, written by Don Jacopo (Giacobbo de Francesco).
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century