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ILLUMINATED INITIAL "A", on a leaf from a MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM
[Veneto, second half of the 15th century]
Leaf 488x353mm, initial 82x96mm, pink with white tracery on burnished gold ground, with painted leafy and floral extensions and decoration, infilled with pink and green leaves on blue ground patterned with white tracery. Text in a black gothic rotunda, rubrics in red, six lines of music in square notation on red 4-line staves; verso of a leaf. Recto with 6 lines of music, foliated xxvii
The initial introduces the introit for Mass on the third Sunday after Epiphany 'Adorate deum omnes angeli eius audunt'
[Veneto, second half of the 15th century]
Leaf 488x353mm, initial 82x96mm, pink with white tracery on burnished gold ground, with painted leafy and floral extensions and decoration, infilled with pink and green leaves on blue ground patterned with white tracery. Text in a black gothic rotunda, rubrics in red, six lines of music in square notation on red 4-line staves; verso of a leaf. Recto with 6 lines of music, foliated xxvii
The initial introduces the introit for Mass on the third Sunday after Epiphany 'Adorate deum omnes angeli eius audunt'