Accession number
MS M.1205
Object title
Leaf from a Gradual with an historiated initial "B" with St. Michael (MS M.1205).
Display Date
ca. 1300
Created
Possibly Bologna, Italy, ca. 1300
Credit line
Gift of Lucy Adams in memory of George B. Adams, 2017.
Description
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; sheet: 501 x 356 mm; initial: 128 x 115 mm
Provenance
London, Christie's, 20 June 1990, lot 9 (unsold); London, Christie's, 25 November 1992, lot 2, to George B. Abrams (1930-2011), Lucy Adams (b. 1931); gift of Lucy Adams in memory of George B. Adams, 2017.
Notes
Single leaf from a Gradual (originally folio 81), possibly written and illuminated in Bologna, ca. 1300.
Historiated initial "B" (of Benedicite [Bless]), the beginning of the Introit for the Mass for the feast of the dedication of St. Michael (29 September).
Illustration: St. Michael the Archangel holding a floriated spear and an orb.
Musical notation: 4 and 5 4-line staves in red ink, square notation.
Historiated initial "B" (of Benedicite [Bless]), the beginning of the Introit for the Mass for the feast of the dedication of St. Michael (29 September).
Illustration: St. Michael the Archangel holding a floriated spear and an orb.
Musical notation: 4 and 5 4-line staves in red ink, square notation.
Script
Gothic rotunda
Language
Latin
Century
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