The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Historiated Initial (P) Excised from a Gradual: The Nativity

c. 1350–75

attributed to Lippo Vanni

(Italian)
Italy, Siena
ink, tempera, and gold on parchment
Sheet: 10 x 11 cm (3 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Gift from J. H. Wade 1924.1011
Location: Not on view
  • Signorello, Lucrezia "Musica picta restituta. La libreria di coro di Sant'Agostino di Siena e il ritrovamento dei cutting miniati," Analecta Augustiniana Vol. LXXXC (2022). p. 276, note 159
  • The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).
    Late Medieval Art. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (October 31-November 26, 1958).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
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