Post by Keegan Goepfert

One of the great pleasures of working with medieval manuscripts is the occasional moment when a familiar hand appears in an unexpected place. While exploring newly digitized collections in Prague, I identified three previously unrecorded leaves from Cristoforo Cortese’s dispersed Gradual, illuminated in Venice around 1420. More importantly, these discoveries revealed that the surviving fragments come from at least two original volumes. Each newly identified fragment brings us a step closer to reconstructing one of the finest Venetian choirbooks of the early fifteenth century. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gPAYf2gZ