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Historiated initial from a set of Choir Books

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  • Illuminated Manuscript. Cutting. Historiated initial from a set of Choir Books. Parchment, gold, 223 x 175 mm, two fragmentary four-line musical staves ruled in red ink and two fragmentary lines ruled in black ink on reverse. Production Place: Italy, probably Umbria. Circa 1300- circa 1310. CONTENTS: The initial may have introduced the hymn for the Veneration of the Cross on Good Friday, Crux fidelis inter omnes; on reverse, fragments from the Communion of the Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday, [Ne tradideris me domine in animas persequentium me quia insurrexerunt in me testes i]niqui et [mentita est iniqui]tas sibi. Ps[almus]. DECORATION: Historiated initial in grey-blue or pink with stylized acanthus, on blue ground with delicate white scrolling ornament and white dots: [C, 2 ll.] Crucifixion, with the Virgin and St John.
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