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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from a Choir Psalter. Historiated initial in pink on gold ground: [C, 5 ll.] Nativity. Latin, Gothic bookhand (textualis). Parchment, 133 x 132 mm, five lines ruled in faint brown ink on reverse. 1450-1460. Production Place: Cremona, Italy. CONTENTS: On reverse, part of Ps 15:5-6, [Dominus pars h]ereditatis mee [et calicis mei] tu es qui re[stitues heredi]tatem meam mihi [funes ceci]derunt mihi in p[reclaris etenim hereditas mea preclara est mihi]; the initial probably introduced Ps 15, Conserva me Domine.
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