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Initial from an Antiphoner
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 288 x 158 mm, three four-line musical staves ruled in red, three lines of fragmentary text ruled in hard point.
CONTENTS: On reverse, fragmentary text from the invitatory for Matins for the Second Sunday of Advent, [Surgite, vigilemus] uenite a[doremus q]uia ne[scitis hora]m quan[do venite Dominus]; the historiated initial H introduced the responsory to the first lesson of Matins for the Second Sunday of Advent, Hierusalem cito, and would originally have been on the verso of the leaf.
DECORATION: Historiated initial [H] in pink on gold ground: Four Patriarchs or Prophets in the bowl of the letter looking up at the Redeemer above, with painted acanthus forming partial border in upper margin.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 78
Primary reference Number: 178367
Project ID: 1418
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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