RESURRECTION OF CHRIST - LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL 'R' ON A LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED CHOIRBOOK MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Upper Rhine, c. 1510] 460 x 334mm. Christ, wearing a pink loincloth and holding a pink standard, steps out of his tomb on to the frame of the initial, two soldiers sleep at the sides of the tomb, two more are on guard behind it, green hills in the middle ground and a group of buildings beyond, the scene extends beyond the initial 'R' of burnished gold to fill the area enclosed by the square frame of pale pink, an illuminated border of curling green tendrils with spiky attenuated acanthus and fantastic fruits and flowers, large, blue painted initial on verso and a large calligraphic initial touched red on both recto and verso, the latter including a caricature face, rubrics are red and 9 lines of text in a gothic bookhand in brown ink are between 9 lines of music of square notation on a 4-line stave of red (cracking of gold, right margin folded back). This leaf, once folio 112 of a Gradual, begins with the Introit 'Resurrexi et ad huc tecum' for the Mass for Easter Sunday. In both the script and the layout of the initial this leaf is close to the choirbooks made by Benedict Mett for the Benedictine Abbey of Rheinau in Switzerland in 1518-19 (Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, RH.2, RH.3 and RH.4) and is likely to have been produced in the same region.
RESURRECTION OF CHRIST - LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL 'R' ON A LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED CHOIRBOOK MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Upper Rhine, c. 1510] 460 x 334mm. Christ, wearing a pink loincloth and holding a pink standard, steps out of his tomb on to the frame of the initial, two soldiers sleep at the sides of the tomb, two more are on guard behind it, green hills in the middle ground and a group of buildings beyond, the scene extends beyond the initial 'R' of burnished gold to fill the area enclosed by the square frame of pale pink, an illuminated border of curling green tendrils with spiky attenuated acanthus and fantastic fruits and flowers, large, blue painted initial on verso and a large calligraphic initial touched red on both recto and verso, the latter including a caricature face, rubrics are red and 9 lines of text in a gothic bookhand in brown ink are between 9 lines of music of square notation on a 4-line stave of red (cracking of gold, right margin folded back). This leaf, once folio 112 of a Gradual, begins with the Introit 'Resurrexi et ad huc tecum' for the Mass for Easter Sunday. In both the script and the layout of the initial this leaf is close to the choirbooks made by Benedict Mett for the Benedictine Abbey of Rheinau in Switzerland in 1518-19 (Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, RH.2, RH.3 and RH.4) and is likely to have been produced in the same region.
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