David playing psaltery in a landscape, historiated initial from a Choir Psalter

An image of Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from a Choir Psalter. Production Place: Italy, Cremona. Parchment, gold, 165 x 153 mm, five lines of text ruled in brown ink on reverse, circa 1490 to circa 1499.
CONTENTS: On reverse, part of Psalm 118:9-10, [ser]mones tuos / in toto corde / meo exquisivi / te ne repellas / me a manda[tis tuis]; the initial may have introduced Psalm 118, Beati immaculati. DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink with white floral pattern and acanthus extensions on gold ground: Psalm 118, [B, 5 ll.] David playing psaltery in a landscape. ORNAMENTATION: Blue initial [I, 1 l.], mostly trimmed, with red pen flourishing.

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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from a Choir Psalter. Production Place: Italy, Cremona. Parchment, gold, 165 x 153 mm, five lines of text ruled in brown ink on reverse, circa 1490 to circa 1499. CONTENTS: On reverse, part of Psalm 118:9-10, [ser]mones tuos / in toto corde / meo exquisivi / te ne repellas / me a manda[tis tuis]; the initial may have introduced Psalm 118, Beati immaculati. DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink with white floral pattern and acanthus extensions on gold ground: Psalm 118, [B, 5 ll.] David playing psaltery in a landscape. ORNAMENTATION: Blue initial [I, 1 l.], mostly trimmed, with red pen flourishing.

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Accession Number: MS McClean 201.16d
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Andrew Morris
Image height: 1120 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
Filesize: 306.68kB

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15th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending acanthus biblical choir book choir psalter cutting David decorative initial Fitz_MSPB gold leaf historiated initial illuminated illumination inhabited initial initial Italian King David kings landscape male manuscript miniature music manuscript musical instruments musician Old Testament parchment playing an instrument psalter psaltery Quattrocento religion religious Renaissance

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