# Initial "A" from the Antiphonary \(Choir Book 39\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SIMONE CAMALDOLESE, Don]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Tempera and gold on parchment ## Commentary Along with Gherarducci, the other protagonist of the Camaldolese school of the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli is Don Simone, native of Siena, and linked to the artistic traditions of his city. His work has been reconstructed on the basis of the initial "A" at the beginning of the Antiphonary dated 1381 and originally from the monastery of San Pancrazio, attributed to the artist in the explicit of the codex Choir Book 39. ## Related artworks - [Antiphonary \(Folio 51\)]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Gradual \(fragment\)]() - [Gradual \(fragment\)]() - [Gradual \(Volume 1, folio 1r\)]() - [Gradual \(Volume 2, folio 1v\)]() - [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]()