Throne of Mercy with heavenly choir, historiated initial from an Antiphoner

An image of Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from an Antiphoner. Libri, Girolamo dai (Italian). Production Place: Italy, Verona. Parchment, 183 x 180 mm, two four-line staves ruled in red ink and two lines of fragmentary text on reverse, largely obscured by paper to which they were formerly pasted. Circa 1540 to circa 1550.
CONTENTS: Part of the second antiphon at Vespers for Trinity Sunday, [Laus et perenni]s glo[ria Deo Patri et Filio], on reverse; the initial G would have introduced the first antiphon, Gloria tibi Trinitas. DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of stylized acanthus and architectural motifs on burnished gold ground: [G, height of two musical staves and two text lines] Throne of Mercy with heavenly choir, the Father’s triangular halo is inscribed with the initials P[ater], F[ilius] and S[piritus sanctus].

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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from an Antiphoner. Libri, Girolamo dai (Italian). Production Place: Italy, Verona. Parchment, 183 x 180 mm, two four-line staves ruled in red ink and two lines of fragmentary text on reverse, largely obscured by paper to which they were formerly pasted. Circa 1540 to circa 1550. CONTENTS: Part of the second antiphon at Vespers for Trinity Sunday, [Laus et perenni]s glo[ria Deo Patri et Filio], on reverse; the initial G would have introduced the first antiphon, Gloria tibi Trinitas. DECORATION: Historiated initial formed of stylized acanthus and architectural motifs on burnished gold ground: [G, height of two musical staves and two text lines] Throne of Mercy with heavenly choir, the Father’s triangular halo is inscribed with the initials P[ater], F[ilius] and S[piritus sanctus].

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Accession Number: MS 378
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Andrew Morris
Image height: 1045 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
Filesize: 258.15kB

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