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Folios 62v-63r, historiated initial with St. John Gualbert
Vallambrosan Rituale
Folios 62v-63r, historiated initial with St. John Gualbert

Vallambrosan Rituale

1479–1508
Place of ManufactureItaly
Medium/TechniqueTempera, ink, and pencil (modern) with gold on parchment; bindings of blind-stamped- and -rolled calf over bevelled wooden boards with gilding and metal
DimensionsOverall (page dimensions): 25.5 x 18.8 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Overall (writing space): 24.5 x 17.7 cm (9 5/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
Accession number1979.493
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
ProvenanceBetween 1479-1508, probably written at Santa Maria di Vall'ambrosa, near Florence, Italy [see note 1]. By 1979, Aimée and Rosamond Lamb, Boston, MA; gift of Aimée and Rosamond Lamb. (Accession date: October 17, 1979)

NOTES:
[1] Probably written at Santa Maria di Vall'ambrosa, approximately 20 miles east of Florence, between 1479-1508. The overlap of the abbacy of Biagio Milanesi (abb. 1479-1523), who is mentioned in the professions, and the Florentine Episcopacy of Rinaldo Orsini (bishop 1474-1508), whose arms are on f. 1.
Folios 133v-134r, historiated initial with Christ emerging from the tomb
Liberale da Verona
about 1450–75
View: Folio 75
about 1300–50
Detail: folio 1, verso
late 13th century
Detail: folio 1, recto
mid-13th century
View: f.1
16th century with 18th–century A.D.ditions
Book of Hours (variant of Use of Paris, and Use of Rome)
probably 1275–1300 (France), with additions in 1350–1400 (Italy)
Detail: folio 39, recto
Saint Augustine
mid-13th century