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THE VIRGIN AND CHILD in an initial A, opening folio of the Capitolare della Scuola di S. Maria, in Italian, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Venice, mid-15th century]
290 x 210mm (leaf); 88 x 80mm (initial). The Virgin, clothed in blue, seated and holding the Child, clothed in green, who makes a gesture of blessing and places his left hand on the staff of the banner held by a member of the confraternity kneeling before him, the initial staves in red and green modelled in yellow, the whole on a shaped ground of burnished gold, with a full-page border consisting of red, blue, green and burnished gold flowers and leaves on fine scrolling brown vine stems. The leaf with 24 long lines of script written in brown ink in round Italian gothic script, ruled in brown ink, justification: 205 x 143mm, rubrics and capital strokes in red, two 2-line illuminated initials on the verso (slight flaking of pigment).
There were numerous lay confraternities, or scuole, in medieval and renaissance Venice, each serving a particular group - perhaps a trade or an immigrant community - and dedicated to a particular saint. Orignally formed for devotional or charitable purposes they came to provide the politically powerless middle class of the city with a vital social and public role; and with the erection and decoration of their meeting-houses the scuole were responsible for commissioning some of the greatest art and architecture in Venice. This leaf is the opening folio of the rule-book and register of a scuola dedicated to the Virgin; the rule of the scuola had been confirmed in 1343.
[Venice, mid-15th century]
290 x 210mm (leaf); 88 x 80mm (initial). The Virgin, clothed in blue, seated and holding the Child, clothed in green, who makes a gesture of blessing and places his left hand on the staff of the banner held by a member of the confraternity kneeling before him, the initial staves in red and green modelled in yellow, the whole on a shaped ground of burnished gold, with a full-page border consisting of red, blue, green and burnished gold flowers and leaves on fine scrolling brown vine stems. The leaf with 24 long lines of script written in brown ink in round Italian gothic script, ruled in brown ink, justification: 205 x 143mm, rubrics and capital strokes in red, two 2-line illuminated initials on the verso (slight flaking of pigment).
There were numerous lay confraternities, or scuole, in medieval and renaissance Venice, each serving a particular group - perhaps a trade or an immigrant community - and dedicated to a particular saint. Orignally formed for devotional or charitable purposes they came to provide the politically powerless middle class of the city with a vital social and public role; and with the erection and decoration of their meeting-houses the scuole were responsible for commissioning some of the greatest art and architecture in Venice. This leaf is the opening folio of the rule-book and register of a scuola dedicated to the Virgin; the rule of the scuola had been confirmed in 1343.