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Historiated initial from an Antiphoner
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 203 x 203 mm, two four-line musical staves ruled in red, two fragmentary lines of text.
CONTENTS: On reverse, part of the antiphon to the first psalm of the first nocturn at Matins for the feast of the Ascension, [...]pum. Seculo. Elevata est ma[gnificentia tua super caelos deus]; the historiated initial P, originally on the verso, would have introduced the responsory for the first lesson at Matins for the feast of the Ascension, Post passionem suam.
DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of classicising foliate forms on a ground of solid gold: [P] The Risen Christ addresses the Apostles before the Ascension (Acts 1.8).
ORNAMENTATION: Gold initial [E] on blue ground with gold flourishing on reverse.
History note: Sold by a German bookseller, probably in the nineteenth century (note on old mount, lot number 504 written in pencil twice on the reverse)
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century, Early#
Circa
1500
CE
-
Circa
1525
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 63
Primary reference Number: 176709
Project ID: 1408
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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