Initial 'O' from a Sistine Chapel Antiphonary with St. Clement I Pope and Martyr

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Capp. Sist. 11, [fol. 90 bis], dated 1539 in the colophon and decoration; ca. 1789, excised from Capp. Sist. 11 probably at the time of the Napoleonic invasion of Rome and looting of the Sistine Chapel; to 1986, Charles Ratton (Paris, France); 1986-ca. 1991, Galerie Ratton-Ladrière (Paris, France); ca. 1991, Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago); 2001, sold to the Chazen Museum of Art.

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• Acquisitions 1999-2002, A Selection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 7/6/2002–8/25/2002

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