Item Info

Script: Rotunda
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front 28:3
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial C with St. Stephen Protomartyr
Notes: These cuttings can be dated to ca. 1400.
Notes: This initial begins the Introit of the Mass for the feast of St. Stephen (Dec. 26), "Et enim sederunt principes, et adversum me loquebantur ..." (Closeted together, princes have plotted against me). St. Stephen was the first martyr of the Christian faith. As recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, he was stoned to death (Acts 7:56-59). He is shown here dressed in deacon's vestments with the stones that struck his head and his martyr's palms.

Lewis E M 28:3-5 and E M 28:7 were illuminated by a follower of Tomasino da Vimercate, an illuminator active in Milan from ca. 1390 to 1415. Until his identity was determined by documentary evidence, Tomasino was previously known as the anonymous Master of the Modena Hours after his most characteristic work in a book of hours, now in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, Italy.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1668160
Country: Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Milan

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1410
Image Dimensions Width: 118 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 28:3-5
Creator Name: Tomasino da Vimercate, follower of - Artist