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Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

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  • Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from an Antiphoner. Parchment, 117 x 129 mm, two four-line musical staves ruled in red ink, two lines of fragmentary text. Production Place: Bergamo or Cremona, Italy. Circa 1450 to circa 1460. CONTENT: On reverse, part of an antiphon for the third psalm at Lauds for the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin (August 15), In odorem un[guentorum tuorum cu]rrimus adolescent[ulae dilexerunt te nimis]; the initial probably introduced the antiphon for the first psalm of Lauds for the Assumption, Assumpta est Maria. DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of architectural motifs on a gold ground: [A], Assumption of the Virgin, with the Virgin borne up to Heaven by four angels. ORNAMENTATION: verso: One ornamental initial [I] in red, height of the gap between musical staves, with voided foliate decoration in purple and yellow; the following letter [N], a display capital in brown with pen-flourishing in the same colour, filled with yellow.
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