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ST. AGNES, historiated initial "D", on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIR BOOK ON VELLUM
[Florence, circle of Lorenzo Monaco, circa 1400]
Leaf 402x325mm (trimmed at head), initial 92x91mm, pink orange and blue with yellow border and burnished gold decoration on blue ground, with coloured foliate extension. The saint in orange gown, holding and stroking a lamb, on blue ground. Text in a brown gothic textura, rubrics in red, calligraphic large initial "P", blue with red penwork flourishing. Verso of a leaf with 7 lines of music in square notation on red four-line staves, also 7 lines on recto, with 3 large calligraphic initials. The miniature illustrates the Response for the feast of the birth of St.Agnes, "Diem festum sacratissimae vir" Possibly cut from an antiphonal for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence.
[Florence, circle of Lorenzo Monaco, circa 1400]
Leaf 402x325mm (trimmed at head), initial 92x91mm, pink orange and blue with yellow border and burnished gold decoration on blue ground, with coloured foliate extension. The saint in orange gown, holding and stroking a lamb, on blue ground. Text in a brown gothic textura, rubrics in red, calligraphic large initial "P", blue with red penwork flourishing. Verso of a leaf with 7 lines of music in square notation on red four-line staves, also 7 lines on recto, with 3 large calligraphic initials. The miniature illustrates the Response for the feast of the birth of St.Agnes, "Diem festum sacratissimae vir" Possibly cut from an antiphonal for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence.