Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Italy

Notes

• Initial L with the Swaddled Christ-child borne by angels
   
• This initial begins the Introit for the Second Mass at Christmas: 'Lux fulgebit hodie super nos ...' (Today, the light will shine upon us). The decoration of this initial has been identified as the work of two Florentine artists: Ser Ricciardo di Nanni, who painted the figure of the Christ-Child, and Filippo di Matteo Torelli, who was responsible for the initial itself. Ricciardo (fl. 144980), a priest at Castel Fiorentiono was a student of Torelli's (1409 - 2 May, 1468), and they frequently collaborated on projects. Although they were executed by different artists, physical evidence indicates that Lewis E M 46:8-9 are from the same manuscript.
   
• Filippo di Matteo Torelli was the artist of the initial. This can be dated to ca. 1460.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a gradual.
   

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Keywords

• 15th century
• Gradual
• Italy
• Italian
• Liturgy
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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