# St Benedict Giving the Rule of His Order in an initial V [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SIMONE CAMALDOLESE, Don]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Watercolour and gold on parchment, 202 x 197 mm \(sheet\) ## Commentary St Benedict Giving the Rule of His Order in an initial V c. 1380 Watercolour and gold on parchment, 202 x 197 mm \(sheet\) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco This initial is a fragment from a gradual. It is decorated with leaf shapes, around architectural setting with male saint, seated, holding a book, wearing monk's robes and halo, four kneeling monks in front of him. ## Related artworks - [Antiphonary \(Folio 51\)]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Gradual \(fragment\)]() - [Gradual \(fragment\)]() - [Gradual \(Volume 1, folio 1r\)]() - [Gradual \(Volume 2, folio 1v\)]() - [Initial "A" from the Antiphonary \(Choir Book 39\)]() - [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]()