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Leaf from an Antiphonary, with the Initial V ("Valde"): St. John the Evangelist
Leaf from an Antiphonary, with the Initial V ("Valde"): St. John the Evangelist

Leaf from an Antiphonary, with the Initial V ("Valde"): St. John the Evangelist

Artist/Maker
Dateca. 1470–75
MediumInk, tempera and gold leaf on parchment
DimensionsSheet: 25 3/16 × 18 1/8 in. (64 × 46 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert Lehman
Object number1943.16
Status
Not on view
More Information
This leaf comes from an antiphonary commissioned for the cathedral of Lucca by its bishop, Stefano Trenta. The leaf places John the Evangelist, holding a pen and a book, in a letter “V” opening a text that means “Very highly we must venerate blessed John.” This text was sung at the office of Lauds on the saint’s feast day, December 27.
Exhibition History
Teaching Exhibition
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 3, 1981 - October 4, 1981 )
Illuminated Manuscripts from the Thirteenth-Sixteenth Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 6, 2007 - June 2, 2007 )
Private Prayer, Public Performance: Religious Books of the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 29, 2013 - June 30, 2013 )
Collections
  • European
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