Historiated initial with the Nativity

An image of Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from a Choir Psalter. Historiated initial in pink on gold ground: [C, 5 ll.] Nativity. Latin, Gothic bookhand (textualis). Parchment, 133 x 132 mm, five lines ruled in faint brown ink on reverse. 1450-1460. Production Place: Cremona, Italy.
CONTENTS: On reverse, part of Ps 15:5-6, [Dominus pars h]ereditatis mee [et calicis mei] tu es qui re[stitues heredi]tatem meam mihi [funes ceci]derunt mihi in p[reclaris etenim hereditas mea preclara est mihi]; the initial probably introduced Ps 15, Conserva me Domine.

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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from a Choir Psalter. Historiated initial in pink on gold ground: [C, 5 ll.] Nativity. Latin, Gothic bookhand (textualis). Parchment, 133 x 132 mm, five lines ruled in faint brown ink on reverse. 1450-1460. Production Place: Cremona, Italy. CONTENTS: On reverse, part of Ps 15:5-6, [Dominus pars h]ereditatis mee [et calicis mei] tu es qui re[stitues heredi]tatem meam mihi [funes ceci]derunt mihi in p[reclaris etenim hereditas mea preclara est mihi]; the initial probably introduced Ps 15, Conserva me Domine.

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Accession Number: MS McClean 201.13f
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Andrew Morris
Image height: 1023 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 1.42MB

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