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Historiated initial from an Antiphoner
Artist: Master of the Brussels Initials
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 128 x 122 mm, two fragmentary four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and two fragmentary lines of text ruled in plummet on reverse.
CONTENTS: On reverse, part of the second antiphon at Matins for the feast of St Andrew (30 Nov.), Venite post [me dicit Dominus fa]ciam vos fieri [pescatores hominum]; the initial introduced the responsory to the first lesson of Matins, Cum perambularet Dominus Iesus.
DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink acanthus on gold ground: [C, 2 ll.] St Andrew holding a cross and a book.
ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initial [V, 1 l.] with red pen-flourished infill and frame on reverse.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
15th Century, Early#
Circa
1410
CE
-
Circa
1420
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS McClean 201.13g
Primary reference Number: 181435
Project ID: 1502
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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