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VIRGIN AND CHILD, historiated initial "R", cut from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM
[Tuscany, Siena?, circa 1400]Cutting 230x135mm, initial 77x77mm with floral extensions, pink on burnished gold ground, extensions orange, green and blue with gold stars. The Virgin in blue robe, sitting and holding the Child, on blue ground with white tracery. (The gold ground a little rubbed). With portions of two lines of music in square notation on red 4-line staves, 3 lines of music on verso, the text in brown ink in a large gothic rotunda
The miniature probably introduces the Response from the Mass for the Wednesday before Advent 'Rorate celi de super et nubes'
[Tuscany, Siena?, circa 1400]Cutting 230x135mm, initial 77x77mm with floral extensions, pink on burnished gold ground, extensions orange, green and blue with gold stars. The Virgin in blue robe, sitting and holding the Child, on blue ground with white tracery. (The gold ground a little rubbed). With portions of two lines of music in square notation on red 4-line staves, 3 lines of music on verso, the text in brown ink in a large gothic rotunda
The miniature probably introduces the Response from the Mass for the Wednesday before Advent 'Rorate celi de super et nubes'