[Manuscript illumination : miniature]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: [14th century]
Dimensions:
Image: 129 x 162 mm (12.9 x 16.2 cm)
Medium: Paint, ink and gold leaf on parchment.
Object number: F.144
DescriptionA fragment from a musical manuscript, judging by the size of this 'miniature' (combined with the size of the text, musical notation and staves), it does seem likely that the manuscript was a monastic choir book (probably a Gradual or Antiphonal). This scene of the Virgin Mary's death, however, is more often than not found in Graduals. This is probably from the same manuscript as F.142-3 and F.13b. This would have originally been part of the Central School's Teaching Examples Collection.