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All on  burnished gold ground.Cut-out historiated initial R (Christ, bearing white banner with black \"maltese\" cross stepping out of tomb over three sleeping soldiers) ; grotesques within initial and in border\r\nThis initial would have been the first letter of the the beginning of the introit for Easter, ‘Resurrexi…’ ('I am risen...').","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"parchment","id":"AAT11851"},{"text":"pigments","id":"x33204"},{"text":"gold","id":"AAT11021"},{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"}],"techniques":[{"text":"illumination","id":"AAT220539"},{"text":"writing","id":"AAT54698"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Manuscript cutting","id":"THES275182"},{"text":"Manuscripts","id":"THES48922"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"},{"text":"Music","id":"THES253065"},{"text":"Medieval and renaissance","id":"THES271264"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009CD9954"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"MS CUTTINGS","shelf":"TEMP 2","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"manuscript cutting","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Netherlands","id":"x29020"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"},{"place":{"text":"Gelderland","id":"x29767"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"},{"place":{"text":"Germany","id":"x28873"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1st half 14th century","earliest":"1300-01-01","latest":"1350-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"8990A","id":"O1026761"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"8990B","id":"O1026760"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"9005A","id":"O122517"},"association":"Object"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Part of cuttings purchased in batches from William Henry James Weale in 1883, 95 on 9 April 1883, 258 on 17 April 1883, 20 on 20 February, for the total sum of £96.7.2 (now Museum nos 8972-9042).\r\nA duplicate number MS.191 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.\r\n\r\nCuttings from the same manuscript in the V&A collection: Museum nos 8990A, 8990B, 9005A, 9005B. \r\n\r\nCuttings from the same manuscript in other collections: Christie's London, 6 December 1989, lot 1; formerly Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne, and later Jörn Günther Antiquariat, Catalogue 6 (2002), no.27; Sotheby's, 3 December 2013, part of lot 17, and subsequently De Brailes, Catalogue One, no.I and Catalogue Two, no.II; McCarthy Collection, BM1606 and 1607 (see Kidd 2016 and Kidd 2019, no. 23).","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Historiated initial R with Resurrection, Eastern Netherlands (Gelderland or Western Germany), 1st half of the 14th century. 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