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THE CALLING OF SAINT ANDREW. HISTORIATED INITIAL 'D' ON A LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM
[Tuscany, perhaps Siena?, early 14th century]
Leaf: 470 x 320mm; initial: 97 x 103mm. Christ standing on an extended leaf outside the initial, calling Andrew and his brother Simon Peter. They are in a boat casting their nets for fish into the green Sea of Galillee, when Christ asks them to become Fishers of Men. Pink initial on blue and burnished gold ground with white tracery. (A small portion of the upper blue ground to the edge of the initial has been cut away).
This seems to be by an artist, who is continuing a 13th century essentially romanesque tradition, as the painter of the Dossale di San Pietro in the Pinatoteca of Siena and the codices illuminated for the church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Siena, perhaps also an initial of the Ascension in the Cleveland Museum of Art no. 52.279
This is the verso of a leaf of 8 lines of music on red four-line staves and text in a gothic rotunda with red rubrics. The recto with similar text and music has 2 two-line illuminated initials with shell-like decoration. There is an 18th-century foliation? 238. The text introduces the verse for the first night of the Feast of St. Andrew 'Dum per ambularet dominus'
[Tuscany, perhaps Siena?, early 14th century]
Leaf: 470 x 320mm; initial: 97 x 103mm. Christ standing on an extended leaf outside the initial, calling Andrew and his brother Simon Peter. They are in a boat casting their nets for fish into the green Sea of Galillee, when Christ asks them to become Fishers of Men. Pink initial on blue and burnished gold ground with white tracery. (A small portion of the upper blue ground to the edge of the initial has been cut away).
This seems to be by an artist, who is continuing a 13th century essentially romanesque tradition, as the painter of the Dossale di San Pietro in the Pinatoteca of Siena and the codices illuminated for the church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Siena, perhaps also an initial of the Ascension in the Cleveland Museum of Art no. 52.279
This is the verso of a leaf of 8 lines of music on red four-line staves and text in a gothic rotunda with red rubrics. The recto with similar text and music has 2 two-line illuminated initials with shell-like decoration. There is an 18th-century foliation? 238. The text introduces the verse for the first night of the Feast of St. Andrew 'Dum per ambularet dominus'