Accession number
MS M.558.4
Object title
Initial with the three persons of the Trinity, cutting from a 15th century Italian choir book (MS M.558 D).
Display Date
second quarter of 15th cent.
Created
Milan, Italy, second quarter of 15th cent.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1912.
Description
1 leaf (cutting), matted : vellum, ill. ; 97 x 99 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Valdimir G. Simkhovitch in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. cutting from a choir book; written and illuminated in Milan, Italy, in the second quarter of the 15th century.
Text on verso: laudamus.
Musical notation: 4-line stave in red ink, with square notes.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial with the three persons of the Trinity.
Artist: perhaps a follower of the Master of the Vitae Imperatorum.
Matted with Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.558.3 and Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.558.5.
Text on verso: laudamus.
Musical notation: 4-line stave in red ink, with square notes.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial with the three persons of the Trinity.
Artist: perhaps a follower of the Master of the Vitae Imperatorum.
Matted with Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.558.3 and Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.558.5.
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textura
Language
Latin
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