Table set for a meal, leaf from an Antiphonal

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Illuminated Manuscript. Cutting. Leaf from an Antiphonal. Production Place: Germany, probably Cologne. Augustinian Use of the Order of the Holy Cross. Parchment, gold, 427 x 308 (335 x 209) mm, 10 lines of text ruled in faint brown ink and 10 four-line musical staves ruled in red ink, circa 1510 to circa 1520. CONTENTS: Antiphon for the Dedication of a Church, Sanctificavit dominus tabernaculum. DECORATION: Historiated initial [S, 2 ll.] formed of entwined foliage on gold ground, table set for a meal, with interlaced acanthus and floral border including Christ as Salvator Mundi and putto with pipe and tabor. ORNAMENTATION: Alternate red and blue one-line penwork initials; calligraphic black ink one-line initial with grotesque profile. Provenance: made for a house of the Order of the Holy Cross, probably St Cornelius at Roermond, Limburg.

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Accession Number: MS 275
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