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Initial from an Antiphoner
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 258 x 220 mm, three four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and four lines of fragmentary text ruled in pale brown ink on reverse.
CONTENTS: On reverse, fragmentary text from the responsory at Matins for the Feast of the Annunciation, ioseph. Nuntias ei [verbu]m et expavescit [Virgo] de lumine, ne ti[mea]s maria invenisti; the initial would have introduced the antiphon at Vespers for the feast of the Annunciation, Missus est Gabriel (Luke 1. 26)
DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded pink with outer bars formed of foliate motifs and central stave of an architectural column: [M] Annunciation, with the Virgin kneeling against a background of fruit trees.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
15th Century, Mid-Late#
Circa
1470
CE
-
Circa
1480
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 24
Primary reference Number: 176545
Project ID: 1374
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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