Blue and red parted initial, leaf from a Psalter

An image of Illuminated Manuscript. Cutting. Leaf from a Psalter. Production Place: Northern Netherlands. Parchment, heavily trimmed, 305 x 215 (230 x 160) mm, 19 long lines, ruled in brown ink, four-line musical stave ruled in brown ink, number 76 written in ink on the recto, circa 1300 to circa 1310.
CONTENTS: Antiphon with one stave of musical notation and Psalm 80:1–14. ORNAMENTATION: Blue and red parted initial [E, 8 lines] with red and violet pen-flourished infill and extensions and red and blue baguette border for Psalm 80; alternate blue and red one-line penwork verse initials.

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Illuminated Manuscript. Cutting. Leaf from a Psalter. Production Place: Northern Netherlands. Parchment, heavily trimmed, 305 x 215 (230 x 160) mm, 19 long lines, ruled in brown ink, four-line musical stave ruled in brown ink, number 76 written in ink on the recto, circa 1300 to circa 1310. CONTENTS: Antiphon with one stave of musical notation and Psalm 80:1–14. ORNAMENTATION: Blue and red parted initial [E, 8 lines] with red and violet pen-flourished infill and extensions and red and blue baguette border for Psalm 80; alternate blue and red one-line penwork verse initials.

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Accession Number: MS 276
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Andrew Morris
Image height: 1433 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 342.47kB

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14th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending Christianity cutting decorative initial Fitz_MSPB foliate historiated initial illuminated illumination initial manuscript manuscript leaf manuscript leaves Medieval miniature music manuscript Netherlandish ornamental ornamentation ornamented ornate parchment penwork psalms psalter religion religious script texts

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