Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from an Antiphoner. Production Place: Italy, probably Florence. Parchment, 203 x 203 mm, two four-line musical staves ruled in red, two fragmentary lines of text, circa 1500 to circa 1525. CONTENTS: On reverse, part of the antiphon to the first psalm of the first nocturn at Matins for the feast of the Ascension, [...]pum. Seculo. Elevata est ma[gnificentia tua super caelos deus]; the historiated initial P, originally on the verso, would have introduced the responsory for the first lesson at Matins for the feast of the Ascension, Post passionem suam. DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of classicising foliate forms on a ground of solid gold: [P] The Risen Christ addresses the Apostles before the Ascension (Acts 1.8). ORNAMENTATION: Gold initial [E] on blue ground with gold flourishing on reverse.
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