The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Leaf from an Antiphonary with Historiated Initial (H) with The Nativity (recto)
early 1300s
Sheet: 53 x 38 cm (20 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.285.a
Location: Not on view
Description
This enormous initial h illustrates the beginning of the text of the first matins response for Christmas Day: Hodie nobis celorum rex (“On this day the King of Heaven”). The initial is appropriately decorated with a scene of Christ’s nativity. Along with other painters and illuminators, Neri da Rimini established the school of Rimini, characterized by a painting style owing much to the work of Giotto, who he perhaps encountered in Padua.- Milliken, William. "Illuminated Pages by Neri da Rimini and His School." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 8 (October 1953): 184, 189-190. Mentioned: p. 184; Reproduced: p. 186 www.jstor.org
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