Zanobbi Strozzi (Florence, c. 1430). Antiphonal from the first Sunday of Advent to the end of Lent with 214 pages (500 x 340 mm). It includes 19 large decorated initials and two large historiated initials, one of King David in Prayer, and the other of the Christ Child. Original binding of leather-backed wooden boards. From the parish of Santa Maria sopra Porta in Florence. Strozzi illustrated a series of choirbooks for the monastery of San Marco in Florence. A painter and an illuminator, he was a follower and sometime assistant of Fra Angelico.
An Antiphonal from the parish at Santa Maria sopra Porta-- Stanford Libraries, Department of Special Collections: Manuscript Collection: M2223, Item 42
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US-STu M2223, Item 42
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T. Robert & Katherine States Burke collection of late medieval and early Renaissance miniatures, 1175-1510
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