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Historiated initial

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  • Illuminated Manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial. Production Place: Italy, Bergamo. Parchment, gold, 110 x 120 mm, image within initial 90 x 63 mm. Made up of an image painted onto re-used pieces of parchment taken from the borders of a fifteenth-century manuscript and superimposed parchment sections containing the halos, the letters, and their gold backgrounds. Circa 1475 to circa 1499. DECORATION: Historaited initial in pink with acanthus extensions on gold ground, images within letter on blue ground: [O] Bust of a prophet holding a blank scroll.
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