{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1023015"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1023015/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CP4262/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CP4262/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2009CP4262","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1023015/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1023015","accessionNumber":"D.229-1906","objectType":"Manuscript cutting","titles":[{"title":"Historiated initial from a Gradual for the Camaldolese monastery of San Michele a Murano","type":""}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Historiated initial L with Adoration of the Shepherds, in a cave. \r\nText: L [ux fulgebit hodie]; on verso [cuius] regni non e/[rit finis. Ps.] Dominus /regnavit, Introit to the Mass for Christmas morning\r\nStaves of 4 red lines, 37 mm; square notation.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Silvestro dei Gherarducci","id":"A11223"},"association":{"text":"attributed to","id":"THES286691"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"illumination","id":"AAT220539"},{"text":"writing","id":"AAT54698"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Water-based pigment, gold leaf and ink on parchment","categories":[{"text":"Manuscripts","id":"THES48922"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"},{"text":"Manuscript cutting","id":"THES275182"},{"text":"Music","id":"THES253065"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009CP4262"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"I","shelf":"81","box":"A"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"manuscript cutting","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Santa Maria degli Angeli","id":"x39387"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Florence","id":"x28848"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Italy","id":"x28927"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli","id":"x39387"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1392 -1399","earliest":"1392-01-01","latest":"1399-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"305","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"125","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"160","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"initial","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"125","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"initial","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"37","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Made in Florence at the convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli, for San Michele a Murano in Venice. Purchased on 22 June 1906 from Bernard Quaritch, together with twelve other cuttings from the same group of manuscripts (D.217 to 229-1906). \r\nA duplicate number MS.967 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.\n\r\nSeven fragments, whose date and place of acquisition are unknown, arrived at the South Kensington Museum by an early date; four (2868, 3045, 3074 and 3087) appear in a register recording the internal transfer from the Art Museum to the Library on 6 December 1863 of a group of 241 illuminations, and a further three are recorded in a similar transfer in 1874 (431, 432 and 434). The remaining thirteen cuttings (D.217 to 229-1906) were acquired on 22 June 1906 from Bernard Quaritch for a total cost of £60. Two of them depicting prophets were lost during the Second World War (D.220-1906 and D.223-1906).\r\n\r\nCuttings from the same set of graduals in the V&A collection: 431, 432, 434, 2868, 3045, 3074, 3087, D.217-1906, D.218-1906, D.219-1906, D.221-1906, D.222-1906, D.224-1906, D.225-1906, D.226-1906, D.227-1906, D.228-1906, D.229-1906. \n\nThis piece is part of a series of over fifty identified cuttings from two different graduals now distributed through various collections. Related cuttings are in: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library; Stockholm, National Museum; Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett; Paris, Musée Marmottan; Padua, Museo Civico; London, The British Library.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Historiated initial L with the Adoration of the Shepherds, from a Gradual for the Camaldolese monastery of San Michele a Murano, Italy (Florence), 1392-1399.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"<u>Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts : Part II, Miniatures, leaves, and cuttings</u>, by S.C. Cockerell and E.F. Strange (London: HMSO, 1908, 1st edition).","id":"AUTH355671"},"details":"p. 85.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"<u>Catalogue of Miniatures, Leaves, and Cuttings from Illuminated Manuscripts. Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design</u>, by S.C. Cockerell and C. Harcourt Smith (London: HMSO, 1923, 2nd edition).","id":"AUTH349022"},"details":"pp. 77-78 (as Siena, 15th century).","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"George R. Bent, 'The Scriptorium at S. Maria degli Angeli and Fourteenth Century Manuscript Illumination: Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, Don Lorenzo Monaco, and Giovanni del Biondo', in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 55. Bd., H. 4 (1992), pp. 507-523."},{"reference":{"text":"Mirella Levi d'Ancona, <u>The reconstructed \"Diurno Domenicale\" from Santa Maria degli Angeli</u>, Florence: Centro Di, 1993.","id":"AUTH357478"},"details":"pp. 29, 49, 55.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Kanter, L., B.D. Boehm et al. <u>Painting and illumination in early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450</u>. New York, 1994.","id":"AUTH348989"},"details":"pp. 155-176.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Watson, Rowan. <i>Vandals and Enthusiasts: Views of Illumination in the Nineteenth Century</i>, London : Victoria and Albert Museum, 1995","id":"AUTH354797"},"details":"no. 6.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Gaudenz Freuler, <u>Tendencies of Gothic in Florence: Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci</u> (Florence: Giunti, 1997).","id":"AUTH357495"},"details":"pp. 453-521 (esp. pp. 475-486).","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Watson, R.<i> Illuminated manuscripts and their makers. An account based on the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum</i>. London, 2003.","id":"AUTH348649"},"details":"p. 92.","free":""}],"production":"Made at the convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence.","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A, 08/09/2021 - 26/06/2022, rooms 88A-90 <br> \r\n<br> \r\n<b>Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (1339–99): Monk and Miniaturist</b><br>\r\nThe Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli \r\nAngeli in Florence was renowned for its high-quality \r\nbook production in the 14th and 15th centuries. One \r\nof its greatest illuminators was Don Silvestro dei \r\nGherarducci, whose talent was so celebrated that, \r\nafter his death, his community preserved his right \r\nhand in a shrine. These cuttings come from two \r\nchoirbooks he and fellow monks made for the sister \r\nmonastery of San Michele in Murano, Venice.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nInitials ‘S’, ‘L’ and ‘U’ with Pentecost, Adoration of the Shepherds and \r\nProphet, from graduals for the monastery of San Michele in Murano<br>\r\nAttributed to Silvestro dei Gherarducci and the Maestro delle Canzoni<br>\r\nFlorence, Italy, 1392–99<br>\r\nInk, gold, watercolour and bodycolour on parchment<br>\r\nMuseum nos. 3045, D.229-1906, D.226-1906 ","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["D.229-1906"],"accessionNumberNum":"229","accessionNumberPrefix":"D","accessionYear":1906,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Cancelled number","id":"THES52962"},"number":"967"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-23","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}