Item Info

Language: Latin
Folio Number: front (27:23)
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial O with St. Clement praying
Notes: These cuttings have been dated to ca. 1395.
Notes: This initial begins the Response for first Vespers of the feast of St. Clement of Rome (Nov. 23), "Orante sancto Clemente apparavit ei Agnus Dei, de sub cuius pede fons vivus emanat ..." (While St. Clement was praying, the Lamb of God appeared to him, from under whose foot a living fountain sprang). The text of the chant explains the iconography of the flowing spring water just under Clement's foot. The Lamb of God mentioned in the chant, however, has been replaced by rays of heavenly light.

Until his identity was determined by documentary evidence, the illuminator Tomasino da Vimercate was previously known as the anonymous Master of the Modena Hours, after his most characteristic work in a book of hours now in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, Italy. Tomasino was active in Milan, where he worked for ecclesiastical and lay patrons from ca. 1390 to 1415. He illuminated eight other leaves in the Free Library's collections, Lewis E M 27:22 and 72:4-10. This group of leaves and cuttings undoubtedly comes from the same series of choir books.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1600033
Country: Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Milan

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1399
Image Dimensions Width: 142 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 27:22-23
Creator Name: Tomasino da Vimercate - Artist