Item Info
Folio Number: front
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial E with Christ surrounded by his Apostles with an unidentified saint
Notes: This cutting can be dated to ca. 1360-80.
Notes: This initial probably begins the response for the first nocturn of Matins of the Common of the Apostles, "Ecce ego mitto vos sicut oves in medio luporum ..." (Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves).
An artist active within the circle of Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna (fl. ca. 1353- 1401), the most famous and prolific Bolognese illuminator working in the second half of the fourteenth century, illuminated this initial. Niccolò headed a large workshop that produced large numbers of choir books for churches and convents in and around Bologna. The cutting may have come from the same volume or set of choir books as Lewis E M 26:8-9, but there is not enough evidence to confirm this.
Sirsi Catalog Key:
1594875
Country:
Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Bologna
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin):
1399
Image Dimensions Width:
161 mm
ShelfMark:
Lewis E M 26:10
Creator Name:
Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna, circle of - Artist
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