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Page from a Choirbook with Christ and a Pharisee in a Historiated Initial “D”

A work made of manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with rounded gothica textualis inscriptions in brownish black ink, ruled in red, on parchment.
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  • A work made of manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with rounded gothica textualis inscriptions in brownish black ink, ruled in red, on parchment.

Date:

1430/90

Artist:

Spanish (Seville)
Master of the Cypresses (Pedro da Toledo or Nicolás Gómez) (Spanish, flourished c. 1420-1440 or 1460-1490)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Master of the Cypresses

Title

Page from a Choirbook with Christ and a Pharisee in a Historiated Initial “D”

Place

Spain (Artist's nationality:)

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1430–1490

Medium

Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with rounded gothica textualis inscriptions in brownish black ink, ruled in red, on parchment

Dimensions

Initial: 18 × 21 cm (7 1/8 × 8 5/16 in.); Text block: 69 × 46 cm (27 3/16 × 18 1/8 in.); Leaf: 88 × 58.9 cm (34 11/16 × 23 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus

Reference Number

1916.401

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