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Detailed record for Additional 29902, ff. 1a-d
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| Title |
Cuttings from a choir book |
| Origin |
Italy, N. (Bologna) |
| Date |
c. 1315 - c. 1325 |
| Artists |
Attributed to Nerio (active in Bologna 1300-1324). |
| Decoration |
4 historiated and foliate initials in colours and gold, of the Crucifixion (f. 1a); Christ preaching (f. 1b); a saint (f. 1c); the Calling of Peter and Andrew (f. 1d). 2 four-line red staves are visible through the illumination. |
| Dimensions in mm |
160 x 85 (f. 1a); 180 x 75 (f. 1b); 130 x 115 (f. 1c); 135 x 130 (f. 1d) |
| Official foliation |
Parchment cuttings mounted on a guard in an album of ff. i + 10 of cuttings and a leaf, foliated as '1a'-'1d'. |
| Form |
Parchment cuttings mounted on a guard in an album of cuttings and a leaf. |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Frederick F. P. Bööcke, London-based collector: purchased from him by the British Museum for £50 on 16 November 1875 (inscription, f. i). |
| Notes |
Italian cuttings.
The present cuttings were formerly foliated by the number of the guard on which they are mounted, as f. 1. They can be found referred to in publications by this number. To see these cuttings in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902.
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Marlay Cuttings It. 80a-c; London, Victoria and Albert Museum, mss 846 (9024C), 848 (9024E), 9025A, 9025C, 883 (9025E) and 884 (9025F); Milan, Nella Longari Collecion, (see Una Collezione di Miniature Italiane dal Duecento al Cinquecento, ed. by Filippo Todini and Milvia Bollati (Milan: Studio Nella Longari, 1993), cat. no. 3); Munich, Graphische Sammlung, inv. 40093-40096, were possibly excised from the same choir book as the present cuttings.
Musical notation. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875 2 vols. (London: British Museum, 1877), p. 741.
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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f. 1a
Crucifixion |
f. 1b
Christ preaching |
f. 1c
Saint |
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