When Melisa Palermo, a Rice University art history Ph.D. student, entered the university's Fondren Library more than three years ago to study a 500-year-old music manuscript, little did she know her research would lead her to make an astounding discovery.
Using an art historian's keen eye and analytical skills (art historians call it "connoisseurship"), Palermo was able to identify the previously unattributed manuscript and its image of an Old Testament prophet as the work of 15th-century Spanish painter Pedro de Palma. Hand-drawn on a large vellum sheet and beautifully illustrated, the manuscript had been donated to Rice in 1949 by New York City bookseller and antiquarian Paul Gottschalk and is housed in the library's Woodson Research Center as part of the Illuminated Sacred Music Manuscript Collection.
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Music: "Slow Drift" (by Spuntic)
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Slow Drift by Spuntic is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.
