Initial from a Choirbook

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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Initial from a Choirbook. Production: Central Italy. Parchment, gold, 257 x 133 mm, three musical staves ruled in red ink and three lines of fragmentary words on reverse, circa 1300. CONTENTS: Fragmentary words on reverse, [â¦]mi â¦.t et â¦.at sem[â¦]; the initial may have introduced the Introit for the Tuesday after the Octave of Easter, Introduxit vos Dominus in terram fluentem. DECORATION: Historiated initial in orange and pink, with gold balls and acanthus extensions on blue ground: [I, 3 ll.] Christ.
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