# Gradual \(Volume 1, folio 1r\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SIMONE CAMALDOLESE, Don]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Tempera and gold on parchment, 540 x 390 mm \(page size\) ## Commentary Volume 1 of the two-volume Graduale is distinguished by red decoration of the appliqués. It covers the period from Advent through Lent and contains 3 historiated initials and 58 foliate initials. Volume 2 is distinguished by green decoration of the appliqués. It covers the period from Easter through the 24th Sunday after Pentecost and contains 4 historiated initials and 46 foliate initials. The initials in the two volumes of the Gradual display the full range of Don Simone's decorative repertoire and the brilliant effects he achieved with a palette of high-key contrasting colours and his signature use of black as a ground colour, both in the framework of large historiated initials and, not infrequently, in the centres of smaller foliate initials. On folio 1r in Volume 1 the Annunciation is depicted in an initial A. The initial begins the introit to the Mass for the first Sunday of Advent. ## Related artworks - [Antiphonary \(Folio 51\)]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Gradual \(fragment\)]() - [Gradual \(fragment\)]() - [Gradual \(Volume 2, folio 1v\)]() - [Initial "A" from the Antiphonary \(Choir Book 39\)]() - [St Benedict Giving the Rule of His Order in an initial V]() - [The Breslauer Epiphany]() - [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri \(Folio 11\)]() - [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri \(Folio 27v\)]() - [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri \(Folio 54r\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()