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Nicolas SpierincFlemish Scribe · 1455–1499
All works by this person →Nicolas Spierinc was one of the most gifted and audacious of the Flemish scribes and illuminators working in the late 1400s. While creating elegant and extremely legible calligraphy, he often embellished his script with elaborately flourished letters, known as *cadelles*, elongating the descenders or ascenders of the letters into the margin where they seem to take on a life of their own. In 1455 S
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- https://data.getty.edu/museum/collection/person/1192b9c8-be71-4e44-91ca-fd7c20522609
- Artist/Maker
- Nicolas Spierinc
- subject_of[Homepage].id
- https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/10922J
- Date
- 1469
- Medium
- Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink
- Culture
- Flemish
- Object Type
- Folio
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- Object ID
- 240df323-1e02-432c-af1b-3393cbcc13eb
- Object Type
- Folio
- Getty Museum field “Object Type” · copied as is
- Creator
- Nicolas Spierinc
- Getty Museum field “Artist/Maker” · copied as is
- Culture
- Flemish
- Getty Museum field “Culture” · copied as is
- Medium
- Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink
- Getty Museum field “Medium” · copied as is
- Department
- Manuscripts
- Getty Museum field “Department” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field · Getty's classification category is stored as department.
- Credit Line
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 37, fol. 20
- Getty Museum field “Standard Credit Line” · the first available of several museum fields
- Getty Museum field “Source Credit Line” · the first available of several museum fields
- Date
- 1469
- Getty Museum field “Date” · copied as is
- Begin Year
- 1469
- Getty Museum field “produced_by.timespan.begin_of_the_begin” · derived by LinkedCulture from the museum field
- End Year
- 1469
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