Description: NMB 2475
A cutting from a choir book illuminated by Maestro Daddesco. 
[Florence, 1325-1350]

Catalogue raisonné: NMB 2475
A cutting from a choir book illuminated by Maestro Daddesco. 
[Florence, 1325-1350] 

Physical Description
MATERIAL: Gouache and gold on parchment.
DIMENSIONS: 160 x 80 mm.
NUMBER OF LEAVES: 1.
FOLIATION: Unknown
RULING: 2 visible lines of text with musical notation ruled in red.
LANGUAGE: Latin. 
SCRIPT: Italian rotunda.
RUBRICATION: No rubrics visible.

Text
Only a few letters are visible.

Sister leaves
Unknown. 

Decoration
Initial I in pink with leaves in green, red, grey, and blue. A martyr saint stands with the leaf of martyrdom in his hand. He wears a blue tunic and a red cloak. 

Provenance
Parent volume
Unknown.

Present leaf
1. Original inventory number is NMH 848/1925 so would have entered the collection of the Nationalmuseum in 1925.

Exhibited
Not exhibited.

Commentary
This cutting only came to light in 2022 during the Illuminated Manuscripts project at the Nationalmuseum. It must have entered the collection in 1925, but so far nothing more is known about it, other than it is most likely illuminated by Maestro Daddesco in Florence in the second quarter of the 14th century. The cutting is the subject of ongoing research and a future publication.

Bibliography
None.

Research project 2022-2023, Illuminated Manuscript, Christian Etheridge, Art Historian

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