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Keywords: Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci - Nativity, in an initial P - Google Art Project.jpg commons artist Leaf from a Gradual I in Latin Illuminated by Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci for Paolo Venier abbot of San Michele à Murano Italy Florence ca 1392 “1399 590 x 400 mm MS M 653 1 The Roman numeral XXXVIII on the recto of the leaf indicates it was originally folio 38 in the Gradual Here the initial P begins the Introit for the Christmas Mass which is taken from the Book of Isaiah 9 6 Puer natus est nobis A child is born to us The prophet Isaiah may be represented as the upper of two heads on the shaft of the P The lower head is that of a shepherd The oval encloses the Nativity which is staged before a cave with the ox and ass The Virgin nurses her child while the prostrate Joseph kisses his foot The kissing of Christ's foot has its textual counterpart and perhaps its origin in such mystical writings as the thirteenth-century Meditations on the Life of Christ in which the Magi and others are described as kissing his feet and playing with him At the bottom of the leaf is the Annunciation to the Shepherds with an angel bearing an olive branch peace to men of good will and a shepherd playing his bagpipe Even the sheep are animated commons date ca 1392 “1399 commons medium commons dimensions commons institution http //www themorgan org/collection/medieval-and-renaissance/manuscript/msm653-1 id 394 commons location commons references commons object_history commons exhibition_history commons credit_line commons inscriptions commons notes commons accession_number commons source commons permission commons other_versions commons zoom core title en Nativity in an initial P core creator Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci core date dateCreated 1392/1399 core format w400 x h590 mm core type Manuscript core relation http //www themorgan org/collections/collections asp id 394 art artist_date 1339/1399 art artist_nationality Italian c-089916f9 customtext credit_line Purchased by Pierpont Morgan 1909 google display_date 1392/1399 google is_artproject TRUE google is_gigapixel FALSE google is_secured TRUE google partner/id 00000000089916f9 google partner/name The Morgan Library Museum google picasa_token XLyz9m-lEl4i6u2ExjH_05gERpc special url_id QgFrgtjrHU-0Ow special partner/name_no_lang The Morgan Library Museum PD-old-100-1923 1399 Google Art Project works by Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci Pierpont Morgan Library manuscripts Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci Miniatures of the nativity of Jesus Christ P as an initial 14th-century illuminated manuscripts from Italy Graduals Leaves from divided illuminated manuscripts San Michele in Isola Venice ¢ ¢
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