Gradual Leaf: Text with Musical Notation and Annotation, ca. 1350

  • Lippo Vanni, Italian, 1341-1376

Ink, pigment and gold leaf on parchment

  • Image: 7 3/8 × 10 3/8 inches (18.7 × 26.4 cm) Sheet (irregular): 21 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (54.6 × 36.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund

35.95.B

Six collection (Holland)

Dr. N. Beets

1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 3 (1935): pp. 30-31. Marle, R. van. "Cinque Miniature di Lippo Vanni." La Diana 4 (1929): p. 159ff. Master Drawings of the Renaissance. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1960, no. 1. Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts. Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1953, no. 54. Os, H. W. van. "Lippo Vanni as a Miniaturist." Simiolus 7, 2 (1974): p. 70 (fig. 5) (ill.) (article, pp. 67-90). Tanis, J.R. ed. Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. Philadelphia, 2001, p. 170 (mentioned by C.B. Strehlke in entry for cat. no. 58, where dated mid-1340s). Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, p. 16 (fig. 5).

Lippo Vanni, Gradual Leaf: Text with Musical Notation and Annotation, ca. 1350, ink, pigment and gold leaf on parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 35.95.B.