Box 1
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Contains 25 Results:
Initial “E” with grapes and flowers, from Italy., Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Description: Illuminated initial “E” from a music manuscript with 4-line staves. The gold initial “E” is decorated with grapes and blue and red flower details. Provenance: Formerly folder 10.2ID Number: CornellMedMS_072_001.jpg (a); CornellMedMS_072_002.jpg (b).
Dates:
Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.
Illumination from a choir book featuring illustration of St. Peter and assembled saints, from Italy., Early sixteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
Description: In this illustration cut from a large choir book, St. Peter is shown in the center of the composition holding a key. Flanking him are St. Jerome and St. John the Baptist on the left, and St. Catherine and St. Lawrence on the right. Behind, a row of saints without attributes lead a host of other saints indicated by a further row of halos.Provenance: Obtained in Europe, circa 1895, by A. D. White. Formerly Calkins, no. 51; De Ricci, II,...
Dates:
Early sixteenth century.
Leaf from an antiphonal for Good Friday, made in Saragossa, Spain, with intricate initials. Tiny pinpricks in both the regular and elegant "N" and "O" reveal that a compass was used., Early sixteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
Description: .Provenance: Acquired by Laurent Ferri in December 2014.
Dates:
Early sixteenth century.
Illuminated vellum manuscript leaf from a book of hours., Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
Description: Page from a book of hours, the recto with a (later inserted) miniature painting (measuring approximately 90 X 61 mm) representing a kneeling nun, probably the patron who commissioned the book, introduced to the Virgin Mary by her patron saint. On the frame, one can read "S. A. BOURDEREUL"; on the verso, text with a full border of rinceaux, including gold ivy leaves on hairline stems as well as floral buds and acanthus leaves....
Dates:
Late fifteenth century to early sixteenth century.
Initial “S” with flowers and initial “Q” with landscape, from Italy. , Sixteenth century.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
Description: Two gold decorated initials of “S” and “Q” probably from the same music manuscript with 4-line staves from Italy. The “S” initial is surrounded with red, pink, and yellow flower details. The “Q” initial contains a miniature landscape illustration in the bowl of the “Q”, with white-pink flowers in the bordering space. Both the “S” and “Q” initials have a border in gold. Provenance: Formerly folders 10.3 and 10.4.ID...
Dates:
Sixteenth century.