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Detailed record for Additional 18196, f. 13
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| Title |
Cutting from a choir book |
| Origin |
Italy, N. or Central |
| Date |
1st half of the 14th century |
| Decoration |
1 historiated initial 'P' of the preparation for the bathing of the Christ Child with two four-line red staves visible through the illumination. |
| Dimensions in mm |
155 x 140 |
| Official foliation |
Bound in an album of ff. i + 90. This cutting foliated as '13'. |
| Form |
Parchment cutting mounted on a card guard in an album of cuttings. |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Bound by Charles Lewis (b. 1786, d. 1836), London bookbinder, for the booksellers Payne and Foss. Gold tooled dark blue morocco with on the spine: 'Picturae / et / miniaturae / antiquae / saec. xiv.ad xvi / mus. brit. / iure emptionis / 18,196.'. Marbled paper, gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
William Young Ottley (b. 1771, d. 1836), writer on art and collector: possibly part of his sale, 11 May 1838, but unidentifiable; inscribed by Frederic Madden on a sheet in box: 'Purchased at Payne and Foss's sale / at Sotheby's, 27th June 1850. / Lot 1087. / Formerly part of the collection / of W.Y. Ottley, Esq. dispersed / in 1838' (f. i).
Payne and Foss, London booksellers: their sale, 24 June 1850, lot 1087; purchased by Boone on the fourth day of the sale, 27 June.
William Boone, London bookseller trading 1815-1870: purchased by him for £18; purchased from Boone on the same day by the British Museum. |
| Notes |
Italian cutting.
The present cuttings are bound in an album with Add. 18196, ff. 2-12 and 14-90. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 18196, ff. 2-90.
Musical notation. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1868), p. 87.
J. J. G. Alexander, 'Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in British Collections', in La Miniatura Italiana tra Gotico e Rinascimento: atti del II Congresso di Storia della Miniatura Italiana, Cortona, 24-26 settembre 1982, ed. by Emanuela Sesti (Florence: Olschki, 1985), 99-126 (p. 110 n. 30), reprinted in Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Studies in Italian Manuscript Illumination (London: Pindar Press, 2002), 22-54, 382-84 (p. 33 n. 30). |
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f. 13
Bathing of the Christ Child |
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