Item Info

Language: Latin
Folio Number: front 26:8
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial E with a monk praying to God
Notes: These cuttings can be dated to ca. 1360-80.
Notes: This initial begins the response for the first nocturn of Matins for the Common of One Confessor, "Euge serve bone et fidelis ..." (Well done, good and faithful servant). This identification is confirmed by the fragmentary text on the reverse that comes from the preceding second antiphon for the first nocturn of Matins and psalm reading from Psalm 2, "Quare fremuerunt ..." (Why do [the heathen] rage).

An artist active within the circle of Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna (fl. ca. 1353- 1401), the most famous and prolific Bolognese illuminator working in the second half of the fourteenth century, illuminated this initial and Lewis E M 26:9, which was taken from the same antiphonary. Niccolò headed a large workshop that produced many choir books for churches and convents in and around Bologna. These cuttings may have come from the same volume or set of choir books as Lewis E M 26:10, but there is not enough evidence to confirm this.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1677175
Country: Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Bologna

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1399
Image Dimensions Width: 134 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 26:8-9
Creator Name: Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna, circle of - Artist