Antiphonary
by SIMONE CAMALDOLESE, Don, Tempera and gold on parchment, 595x 439 mm (page size)
Don Simone is documented as having painted a gradual and several volumes of an antiphonary for the Olivetans at San Miniato al Monte in Florence. It is assumed that this page is a fragment of one of these antiphonaries. The initial A with the Annunciation begins the response for the first nocturn of the first Sunday in Advent. Typically it occurs as the first page (or the first illumination) of the first volume of an antiphonary.