Leaf from a Gradual

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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Leaf from a Gradual. Production Place: Italy, Lombardy, probably Brescia. Parchment, gold, 490 x 385 mm (437 x 285 mm), seven musical staves ruled in red ink, seven lines of text ruled in pale brown ink, contemporary folio number xxii in red in outer margin of recto. Circa 1450 to circa 1475. CONTENTS: Opening of the Introit of the Mass for the Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June), De uentre matris mee (Is 49: 1-2) â¦ Ps. (verso) Bonum est confiteri domino â¦Gloria. Gr. Priusquam te formarem â¦ V. Misit dominus manum suam et tetegit os.; the initial introduced the Introit De uentre. DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink and blue on a square ground of solid gold with foliate extensions forming a partial border: [D] St John the Baptist. ORNAMENTATION: Alternate red and blue initials [height of the width between staves] with foliate pen flourishing in purple or red, for verses; text immediately following the historiated initials and the verse initials is written in display script, flourished in black filled with yellow wash.
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