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Leaf from a Choir Psalter

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  • Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Leaf from a Choir Psalter. Production Place: Italy, Lombardy, probably Brescia. Parchment, gold, 530 x 330 mm (360 x 247 mm), one musical stave ruled in red ink, 7-15 lines of text, ruled in pale brown ink, early ink foliation 48 at lower right hand corner of verso (originally the recto of the leaf). Circa 1450 to circa 1475. CONTENTS: On reverse, antiphons, the Monday Matins hymn, Somno refectis artubus (Chevalier II, 1897, no. 19210), on recto, Ps. 26: 1-2, Dominus illuminatio mea … ipsi infirma[ti]), from the office at Matins for Monday; the initial [D] introduces Ps. 26. DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded pink, green and liquid gold on square grounds, extending to form partial foliate borders with spray-work and fruit and flower motifs: [D, 6 ll.] King David pointing to his eyes. ORNAMENTATION: Alternate red and blue one-line verse initials with purple or red pen flourishing; text immediately following the historiated initials and the verse initials is written in display script, flourished in black filled with yellow wash.
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