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Marginal decoration of rich acanthus leaves with burnished gold.\r\n\r\nText:.../medi camine lignum mi/.../data fidei ita die hac/...\r\nStaves of 4 red lines, music and text; square notation.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Manuscript cutting","id":"THES275182"},{"text":"Manuscripts","id":"THES48922"},{"text":"Medieval and renaissance","id":"THES271264"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"},{"text":"Music","id":"THES253065"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009CP4284","2006AT7607"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"I","shelf":"81","box":"H"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Manuscript cutting","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Italy","id":"x28927"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Tuscany?","id":"x29374"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1400","earliest":"1395-01-01","latest":"1404-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"370","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"355","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"37","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"stave","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Collection of James Dennistoun: his sale, Christie's, London, 14 June 1855, lot 47 (as 'School of Giotto'); purchased for £4.14.6d at this sale. Was given Inv. no. 4019-1856 of the Science & Art Museum (ie Museum of Ornamental Art); transferred from Art Museum in December 1863.\r\nA duplicate number MS.957 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Cut-out historiated initial M (Christ Crucified, a bishop catching his blood, elders and two beggars) from a Choir Book; Italy (Tuscany?); ca 1400","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"<u>Inventory of the objects forming the collections of the Museum of Ornamental Art at South Kensington</u>, ed. by J.C. Robinson, London : Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1856.","id":""},"details":"p. 73, no. 10200 [as Italian, 1400. £4 14s 6d 1855, (4019)].","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"<u>Inventory of the objects forming the collections of the Museum of Ornamental Art at South Kensington</u>, ed. by J.C. Robinson, London : Printed by George E. 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This \r\ncollection supported his ambition, never realised, \r\nto write a history of Italian medieval art. The museum \r\nbought this initial in 1855 after Dennistoun died.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nInitial ‘M’ with miracle of a bleeding crucifix, from a choirbook<br>\r\nTuscany, Italy, about 1400<br> \r\nInk, gold, watercolour and bodycolour on parchment<br>\r\nMuseum no. 2991","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["2991"],"accessionNumberNum":"2991","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Cancelled number","id":"THES52962"},"number":"957"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}