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Illuminated manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from an Antiphoner. Master of the Brussels Initials (French, act. ca.1400). Production Place: Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Bologna. Parchment, 128 x 122 mm, two fragmentary four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and two fragmentary lines of text ruled in plummet on reverse, circa 1410 to circa 1420. CONTENTS: On reverse, part of the second antiphon at Matins for the feast of St Andrew (30 Nov.), Venite post [me dicit Dominus fa]ciam vos fieri [pescatores hominum]; the initial introduced the responsory to the first lesson of Matins, Cum perambularet Dominus Iesus. DECORATION: Historiated initial in pink acanthus on gold ground: [C, 2 ll.] St Andrew holding a cross and a book. ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initial [V, 1 l.] with red pen-flourished infill and frame on reverse.
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