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Initial from an Antiphoner
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 64 x 66 mm, one four-line musical stave ruled in red ink and one line of fragmentary text on reverse.
CONTENTS: On reverse, fragmentary text: […]nes[…]; the initial would have introduced the antiphon at First Vespers for Pentecost, Dum complerentur, or the responsory to the first lesson at Matins, also Dum complerentur.
DECORATION: Historiated initial in shell pink on a gold ground: [D] Group of men looking upwards, probably Pentecost.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
14th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1350
CE
-
Circa
1375
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS McClean 201.9f
Primary reference Number: 181390
Project ID: 1496
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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