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| Title |
Cutting from a choir book |
| Origin |
Italy, N. (Bologna) |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Artists |
Attributed to Nerio (active in Bologna 1300-1324). |
| Decoration |
1 historiated initial 'B' in colours and gold, of two saints. Two four-line red staves are visible through the illumination. |
| Dimensions in mm |
180 x 120 |
| Official foliation |
Parchment cutting mounted on a guard in an album of ff. i + 10 of cuttings and a leaf, foliated as '7b'. |
| Form |
Parchment cutting 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 cutting.
The present cutting was formerly foliated by the number of the guard on which it is mounted, as f. 7. It may be found referred to in publications by this number. To see this cutting in the Manuscripts Reading Room order Add. 29902.
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. |
