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Detailed record for Additional 32058, f. 1 (a)
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| Title |
Cutting from a choir book |
| Origin |
Italy, N. (Bologna) |
| Date |
First quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
Attributed to Nerio (active 1300-1324). |
| Decoration |
1 historiated initial 'I' of God creating the earth above God creating Adam, in colours and gold. On the reverse, three 4-line staves with musical notation and three lines of fragmentary text. |
| Dimensions in mm |
160 x 60 |
| Official foliation |
Whole album: ff. 22 ( + unfoliated modern paper leaves at the beginning and at the end). This cutting foliated as f. 1(a). |
| Form |
Parchment cutting mounted on paper in an album of cuttings and leaves. |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
William Henry James Weale (b. 1832, d. 1917), art historian: purchased by the British Museum on 16 April 1883: (inscription, f. [i]). |
| Notes |
Italian cutting.
This cutting is bound together with six other mounted cuttings and leaves as Add. 32058. To order this cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 32058.
The initial is by the same artist, Nerio, and probably from the same manuscripts as Add. 32058, ff. 1 (b), 2 (a)-(b).
Musical notation. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1882-1887 (London: British Museum, 1889), p. 27.
Alessandro Conti, 'Problemi di Miniatura Bolognese', Bolletino d'arte, no. 2 April-June 1979, p. 3.
Alessandro Conti, La miniatura bolognese, scuole e botteghe 1270-1340 (Bologna: Alfa, 1981), p. 65 n. 25.
Die italienischen Miniaturen des 13.-16. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt (Munich: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, 1984), p. 71.
Massimo Medica, 'Nerio', in Dizionario Biografico dei Miniatori Italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Bonnard, 2004), p. 820. |
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