Vassar College, Cuttings 40, 41

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30337

Shelfmark:

Cuttings 40, 41

Title:

Two miniatures each depicting a pope performing Mass

Miniatures

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1513 and 1521

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations, illuminations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 items : parchment, illustrations, illuminations ; 78-82 x 50-55 mm

Note:

Ms. cuttings.
Title from Kidd.
Script: Written in rounded gothic script.
Decoration: Cutting 40: rectangular miniature or a pope blessing a chalice, perhaps cut from a historiated initial 'I' or 'L'; Cutting 41: oval miniature of same pope behind an altar with chalice, with both hands raised, probably cut from a historiated initial 'S.'
Origin: Produced in Italy, probably Florence, between 1513 and 1521,
Numbered on verso of each, '8' in ink (40) and '3' in pencil (41)
From missal commissioned by Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici during his papacy as Leo X (1513-1521), probably as companion to his Preparatio ad missam manuscript (1520), which has similar historiated initials; William Young Ottley, English collector, probably from his posthumous sale at Sotheby's (May 11-12, 1838); Ada Thurston, Vassar Class of 1880.

Keyword:

miniatures (paintings)

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Sixteenth century

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/349upj/alma991019362655607396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College