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Among the various choir books that Don Silvestro illuminated for his monastery, Santa Maria degli Angeli, one (Cod. Cor. 2, now in the Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence) clearly stands out for its high artistic quality. As were most of the Santa Maria degli Angeli choir books which entered the Biblioteca Laurenziana, it was mutilated in the Napoleonic period. Twenty pages - many of them the most important and most beautiful - were cut from this gradual and found their way into various collections. There are thirty-eight present and missing illuminations in the codex on which a reconstruction can be based.
The cutting from folio 42 depicts the Presentation in the Temple in an initial S. This initial begins the introit to the Mass for the feast of the Purification of the Virgin on February 2. This composition clearly paraphrases Ambrogio Lorenzetti's panel, now in the Uffizi.
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