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Large initial on a bifolium from a decorated manuscript

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Large initial on a bifolium from a decorated manuscript

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Large initial on a bifolium from a decorated manuscript antiphoner, in Latin on parchment [Italy (probably Bologna), thirteenth century] Bifolium, with large initial S (opening Sicut ovis ad … , the responsory for the 1st lesson for Matins of Holy Saturday), in warm orange acanthus leaf fronds, enclosing others in orange, white and blue in its compartments, all heightened with white penwork and all on blue grounds, red rubrics, initial in red or blue with contrasting penwork, 7 lines of text with music on a 4-line red stave (rastrum: 25mm.), seventeenth-century folio numbers 256 and 257 in border of versos, some spots, stains and slight cockling, but overall good condition, 440 by 330mm.