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

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Siena, Italy

Notes

• Initial R with the Christ Child descending like dew and arising from the earth
   
• This initial begins the Introit for the Saturday Mass of the Virgin Mary during Advent: 'Rorate celi de super ...' (Send down dew from above, O Heavens). The unusual iconography of this scene can be explained by the words of the Introit. Translated in full, the Introit, from Isaiah 45:8, is: 'Send down dew from above, O Heavens, and let the clouds rain down the just one; may the earth be opened and bring forth the Savior.' The illumination has been attributed to the workshop of the Master of the Graduale del Carmine, so-called after a choir book illuminated by his hand for the church of Santa Maria del Carmine. He was active in Siena from ca. 1340-1360.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a gradual. This side of the leaf, the true verso, continues the Introit for the Saturday Mass of the Virgin Mary during Advent, which begins on the front.
   
• Instructions to the illustrator regarding the rubrication and the layout of the staves have been erased in the right recto margin but are still partially visible.
   

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Script

Keywords

• 14th century
• Gradual
• Liturgy
• Italy
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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