St Andrew, historiated initial from an Antiphoner, Master of the Brussels Initials

An image of Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from an Antiphoner. Master of the Brussels Initials (French, act. ca.1400). Production Place: Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Bologna. Parchment, 128 x 122 mm, two fragmentary four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and two fragmentary lines of text ruled in plummet on reverse, circa 1410 to circa 1420.
CONTENTS: On reverse, part of the second antiphon at Matins for the feast of St Andrew (30 Nov.), Venite post [me dicit Dominus fa]ciam vos fieri [pescatores hominum]; the initial introduced the responsory to the first lesson of Matins, Cum perambularet Dominus Iesus. DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink acanthus on gold ground: [C, 2 ll.] St Andrew holding a cross and a book. ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initial [V, 1 l.] with red pen-flourished infill and frame on reverse.

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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from an Antiphoner. Master of the Brussels Initials (French, act. ca.1400). Production Place: Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Bologna. Parchment, 128 x 122 mm, two fragmentary four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and two fragmentary lines of text ruled in plummet on reverse, circa 1410 to circa 1420. CONTENTS: On reverse, part of the second antiphon at Matins for the feast of St Andrew (30 Nov.), Venite post [me dicit Dominus fa]ciam vos fieri [pescatores hominum]; the initial introduced the responsory to the first lesson of Matins, Cum perambularet Dominus Iesus. DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink acanthus on gold ground: [C, 2 ll.] St Andrew holding a cross and a book. ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initial [V, 1 l.] with red pen-flourished infill and frame on reverse.

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Accession Number: MS McClean 201.13g
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Photographer name: Andrew Morris
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