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  • Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Initial from an Antiphoner. Production Place: Italy, probably Veneto. Parchment, gold, 258 x 220 mm, three four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and four lines of fragmentary text ruled in pale brown ink on reverse. Circa 1470 to circa 1480. CONTENTS: On reverse, fragmentary text from the responsory at Matins for the Feast of the Annunciation, ioseph. Nuntias ei [verbu]m et expavescit [Virgo] de lumine, ne ti[mea]s maria invenisti; the initial would have introduced the antiphon at Vespers for the feast of the Annunciation, Missus est Gabriel (Luke 1. 26). DECORATION: Historiated initial in graded pink with outer bars formed of foliate motifs and central stave of an architectural column: [M] Annunciation, with the Virgin kneeling against a background of fruit trees.
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