Manuscript: Initial „G“
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Manuscript: Initial „G“ verso
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Medieval manuscript

Late medieval monastery manuscript, single vellum leaf out of an Italian Antiphonary with text and music on both sides.

The large initial „G“ is delicately painted in red on a blue ground, decorated with gold and red vines. Eight lines of text written in a fine gothic hand in black ink. Square notation on four-line red staves (recto and verso)

Italy around 1500

Leaf-Size: 54 cm x 37 cm

The vellum is a little wavy with some minor stains at the margins, altogether in very good condition

€ 300,-

 

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