# Initial V: Saint Placidus, cutting from an antiphonal

- By: Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (Italian, 1339 - 1399)
- Date: about 1385–1390
- Medium: Tempera colors, gold, and ink
- Classification: Detached leaf
- Dimensions: Leaf: 30.6 × 23.7 cm (12 1/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Culture: Italian (Florence)
- Credit line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of T. Robert and Katherine States Burke, Ms. Burke 11
- Museum: [J. Paul Getty Museum](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1GCBD6)
- Rights: [CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ee95d4a711935ee1ddf0dcf285890939.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)