Initial from an Antiphoner

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Illuminated Manuscript. Initial from an Antiphoner. Nerio (Italian). Latin, Gothic bookhand (textualis). On reverse, responsory to the second lesson at Matins for the feast of St Stephen, [Videbant omnes Stephanum qui erant in con]cilio. Et in[tuebantur uultum eius tan]quam uultum an[geli stantis inter illos]; the initial S would have introduced the responsory to the first lesson at Matins for the feast of St Stephen, Stephanus autem plenus gratia. DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink, grey and beige, [S] Martyrdom of St Stephen, with Saul observing. Parchment, 110 x 124 mm, two four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and two lines of fragmentary text ruled in plummet. 1300-1325. Production Place: Bologna, Italy.
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