{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O94009"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O94009/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CP4554/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CP4554/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2009CP4554","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2006AK9230","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2022NC5072","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O94009/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O94009","accessionNumber":"8997C","objectType":"Manuscript cutting","titles":[{"title":"Leaf from a Dominican Antiphoner","type":""}],"summaryDescription":"This is a page from an Antiphoner. This book contained the choral parts for the cycle of Offices celebrated by a monastic or other community. Its size enabled the whole choir to read the music at once. The initial O is historiated (that is, with a figurative picture, <i>istoire</i> being the term for a story). It shows God the Father enthroned with a Crucifix and a dove. The dove represents the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity. Around the borders of the page are animals and grotesque figures. From the last decades of the 13th century, it was common for the ornament that framed the text to be inhabited by regiments of grotesque figures. These were half-man and half-beast. They were depicted alongside animals and birds that were realistically represented. Interspersed among the birds and animals were dragons' bodies and grotesque faces. Occasionally, there is a link between the grotesques and the text, but often there seems little more than incongruous romping.\r\n\r\nThis choirbook was made for a community of Dominican friars, and thus a very scholarly one. In the border, a monkey is catching a bird with a rope; at his feet a cage encloses another bird.","physicalDescription":"Feast of the Holy Trinity. \nRecto: \nHistoriated initial O depicting the Trinity ('Gnadenstuhl' type). Hare, bird and dragon in the border. In the lower border: seated monkey catching a bird with a rope (partially rubbed off), a cage enclosing a bird beside him; winged human-headed hybrid.\nRubric: In festo sancte Trinitatis ad Vesperas super psalmos. \nText: O beata et benedicta et gloriosa Trinitas...\nVerso: \nRubric: Ad matutinas. Invitatorium.\r\n7 lines of music (staves of 4 red lines, 24 mm) and text.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"parchment","id":"AAT11851"},{"text":"pigments","id":"x33204"},{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"}],"techniques":[{"text":"illumination","id":"AAT220539"},{"text":"writing","id":"AAT54698"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Water-based pigments, gilding and ink on parchment","categories":[{"text":"Medieval and renaissance","id":"THES271264"},{"text":"Manuscript cutting","id":"THES275182"},{"text":"Manuscripts","id":"THES48922"},{"text":"Christianity","id":"THES48978"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"},{"text":"Books","id":"THES48986"},{"text":"Music","id":"THES253065"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009CP4554","2006AK9230","2022NC5072"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"I","shelf":"81","box":"V"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Manuscript cutting","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Netherlands","id":"x29020"},"association":{"text":"illuminated","id":"AAT220539"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Southern Netherlands","id":"x28742"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Flanders","id":"THES252813"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1300-1325","earliest":"1300-01-01","latest":"1325-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"8997A","id":"O1028919"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"8997B","id":"O1028918"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"8997D","id":"O1028917"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"8997E","id":"O1028916"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"8997F","id":"O1028915"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"8997G","id":"O1028914"},"association":"Object"},{"object":{"text":"8997H","id":"O1028913"},"association":"Object"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"485","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"320","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"340","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"text block","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"225","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"text block","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"24","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"stave","note":""}],"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).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). Price paid for this leaf, together with 8997B: 14s. Information from Register of Drawings.\nA duplicate number MS.3 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. 8997A, 8997B, 8997C, 8997D, 8997E, 8997F, 8997G, 8997H, see references.\n\nCuttings from the same manuscript in other collections: London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 25 (Resurrection); 3 leaves formerly Yates Thompson MS LXXXIIIA (see Descriptive Catalogue 1907). ","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Leaf from Antiphoner with historiated initial U depicting the Holy Trinity, Northern France or Southern Netherlands, 1st quarter of the 14th century. ","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":"pp. 9-10.","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. 7-8.","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"<u>A Descriptive Catalogue of Twenty Illuminated Manuscripts, Nos. LXXV to XCIV (Replacing Twenty Discarded from the Original Hundred) in the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson</u>, Cambridge: University Press, 1907.","id":"AUTH357484"},"details":"no. LXXXIIIa pp. 75-78 (cuttings from same manuscript).","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Janet Backhouse, <u>The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library</u> (London: British Library, 1997).","id":"AUTH357485"},"details":"no. 83 (BL cutting).","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"<u>Medieval Mastery: Book Illumination from Charlemagne to Charles the Bold 800-1475 </u>(Turnhout: Brepols, 2002).","id":"AUTH357486"},"details":"no. 48 (BL cutting).","free":" "},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Regina Cermann, 'Vom Hölzchen aufs Stöckchen: Neues zu einem codex discissus mit Sigismund Meisterlins \"Augsburger Chronik\" nebst Bausteinen zur Rekonstruktion der Graphischen Sammlung der Heidelberger von Portheim-Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Kunst', in: Balázs Sára (ed.): Quelle & Deutung IX. Beiträge der Tagung Quelle und Deutung IX am 20. November 2024 (Series Antiquitas, Byzantium, Renascentia 59). Budapest, 2025, pp. 43-156 (in relation to no. 20, pp. 86-87).\r\nAvailable online: https://eotvos.elte.hu/dstore/document/15163/Quelle%20und%20Deutung%20IX%20%28EC%29.pdf#"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"God","id":"N809"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"monkey (animal)","id":"x30136"},{"text":"birds","id":"x35043"},{"text":"birdcages (containers)","id":"AAT220907"},{"text":"grotesques","id":"AAT10211"},{"text":"music","id":"x35606"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["8997C"],"accessionNumberNum":"8997","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-19","recordCreationDate":"2004-02-26","availableToBook":false}}