King David kneeling in prayer, initial from a choir book

An image of Illuminated Manuscript/Cutting. Initial from a choir book. Latin, Gothic bookhand (textualis).
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 263 x 260 mm, two musical staves ruled in red ink and two lines of fragmentary text ruled in pale brown ink on reverse, traces of paper mount with ink ruling.
CONTENTS: On reverse, fragmentary text from an antiphon at Matins for Advent, Veniet ecce rex. Eo[…] Alleluia. Evoyae; the initial may have introduced Ps. 1 (Beatus vir) and would have been on the verso of the original leaf.
DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded dark pink with scrolling foliate motifs in pink, blue and green on a ground of solid gold with painted foliage and flowers: [B] King David kneels in prayer, with his crown and psaltery beside him, in front of a colonnaded palace with city and mountains in the distance.
ORNAMENTATION: On reverse, two initials, the height of the gap between musical staves, in blue with red and blue foliate pen-flourishing, and red with blue and purple foliate pen-flourishing.
Production Places: Rome and Bologna. Circa 1490-1500. Italian.

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Illuminated Manuscript/Cutting. Initial from a choir book. Latin, Gothic bookhand (textualis). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 263 x 260 mm, two musical staves ruled in red ink and two lines of fragmentary text ruled in pale brown ink on reverse, traces of paper mount with ink ruling. CONTENTS: On reverse, fragmentary text from an antiphon at Matins for Advent, Veniet ecce rex. Eo[…] Alleluia. Evoyae; the initial may have introduced Ps. 1 (Beatus vir) and would have been on the verso of the original leaf. DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded dark pink with scrolling foliate motifs in pink, blue and green on a ground of solid gold with painted foliage and flowers: [B] King David kneels in prayer, with his crown and psaltery beside him, in front of a colonnaded palace with city and mountains in the distance. ORNAMENTATION: On reverse, two initials, the height of the gap between musical staves, in blue with red and blue foliate pen-flourishing, and red with blue and purple foliate pen-flourishing. Production Places: Rome and Bologna. Circa 1490-1500. Italian.

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Accession Number: Marlay cutting It. 25
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Andrew Morris
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 1017 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
Filesize: 527.13kB

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