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Initial from a Choir book

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  • Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Initial from a Choir book. Production Place: Italy, Lombardy. Parchment, gold, 81 x 91 mm. one fragmentary four-line musical stave ruled in red ink and one line of fragmentary words ruled in brown ink on reverse, circa 1500. DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink with acanthus and green profile mask, on gold ground: [A or D, 1 l.] Half-length figure of King David.
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