Bifolio from a Gradual: Initial (G) with Christ, the Virgin, and Apostles and Initial (O) (recto); Music and Text (verso)
c. 1300
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Bifolio from a Gradual: Initial (G) with Christ, the Virgin, and Apostles and Initial (O) (recto); Music and Text (verso), c. 1300. Italy, Siena (?). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 55.7 x 37.9 cm (21 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.391 Words written in red ink, called rubrics, indicate titles and chapter headings that are not part of a manuscript’s main text.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Formatted Medium
- Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 55.7 x 37.9 cm (21 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1950.391
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art, Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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