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Initial S[alve sancta parens] from a Gradual: Madonna and Child
Don Silvestro dei GherarducciLinkedCulture matchlcp-c67507b20304
- Date
- c. 1370–1374
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Culture
- Italy, Florence
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 105930
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Along with several other excised leaves and miniatures that survive in various libraries and museums, this decorated initial S was part of a magnificent gradual produced in the scriptorium of the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence. The Madonna and Child was a standard image for the Saturday votive Mass to the Virgin. This initial originally introduced the text: Salve sancta parens (“Hail, Holy Mother”).
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- Credit line
- Gift from J. H. Wade
- Provenance
- -1924: Durlacher Brothers, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1924-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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