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Above them another monk plays an organ. All on burnished gold ground.\r\nOther side: Text too generic to be identified.\r\n‘…leyson. Kyri\r\n[…]eyson. Gloria. Gloria.\r\n[…]yrie. 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","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. 25 (as Flemish, early 14th century).","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":"p. 20 (as Flemish, early 14th century).","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kidd, P., <A href=\"https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2016/07/cuttings-from-early-14th-century.html\"><link address=\"cuttings\">'Cuttings from an Early 14th-Century Cistercian Gradual'</link></A>, and <A href=\"https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/p/cuttings-from-cistercian-antiphoner.html\">'Cuttings from a Cistercian Gradual'</A> from Manuscript Provenance blog, July 2016 [last accessed 25/03/2020]. "},{"reference":{"text":"Kidd, P., <u>The McCarthy Collection. Vol. II: Spanish, English, Flemish and Central European miniatures</u>, London: Ad Ilissum, 2019.","id":"AUTH357472"},"details":"pp. 120-123 in relation to no. 23 (as Eastern Netherlands (Gelderland? or Western Germany), 1st half of the 14th century.","free":""}],"production":"","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>Identifying Patrons</b><br>\r\nThese three pieces came from choirbooks made for different religious communities. Choirbooks are named thus because choirs sang from them in church, an activity brought to life in the illuminated initial ‘R’ [top left cutting]. The different clothing worn by the monks and nuns indicates which religious order they belonged to: white for Cistercians [left cuttings] and white with a black veil for Camaldolese nuns, a strand of the Benedictine order [right leaf].<br>\r\n<br>\r\nClockwise from top left:<br>\r\nInitial ‘R’ with monks singing and playing the organ, from a \r\nCistercian gradual<br>\r\nProbably Guelders, Eastern Netherlands, about 1300–50<br>\r\nMuseum no. 8990A<br>\r\n<br>\r\nLeaf with King David presenting his soul to God the Father, \r\nfrom a Camaldolese gradual<br>\r\nAttributed to Lippo Vanni (active about 1340–75)<br>\r\nPossibly Siena, Italy, about 1350–75<br>\r\nInk, gold, watercolour and bodycolour on parchment<br>\r\nMuseum no. 4149<br>\r\n<br>\r\nInitial ‘C’ with monks attacked by Death and dragged into Hell,\r\nfrom a Cistercian choirbook<br>\r\nNetherlands, about 1500–30<br>\r\nInk, gold, watercolour and bodycolour on parchment<br>\r\nMuseum no. 9004H ","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["8990A"],"accessionNumberNum":"8990","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Cancelled number","id":"THES52962"},"number":"192"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-10-14","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}