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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Padua or Venice, Italy

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• Initial E with Christ preaching
   
• This initial begins the first response for the first nocturn of Matins for the Common of the Apostles, 'Ecce ego mitto vos sicut oves in medio luporum...' (Behold, I send you out like sheep in the midst of wolves).
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• Initial O with the Flagellation
   
• This initial begins the first response for the first nocturn of Matins for Good Friday, ' Omnes amici mei dereliquerunt me ...' (All my friends have forsaken me).
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• Initial U with Joseph's dream of the sun, moon, and eleven stars
   
• This initial begins the first response for the first nocturn of Matins for the third Sunday in Lent, 'Videntes Ioseph a longe loquebantur mutuo fratres ...' (Seeing Joseph in the distance, the brothers said to one another).
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• Initial D with an unidentified male saint
   
• The identity of this saint portrayed here and the precise moment in the liturgy that this initial begins remain to be determined.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• Initial S with St. Paul
   
• The precise moment in the liturgy that this initial begins remains to be determined.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• Initial D with an unidentified male saint
   
• The identity of this saint portrayed here and the precise moment in the liturgy that this initial begins remain to be determined.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• Initial E with St. Paul preaching
   
• The precise moment in the liturgy that this initial begins remains to be determined.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• Initial L with Christ healing the sick
   
• The precise moment in the liturgy that this initial begins remains to be determined.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• Initial H with the Baptism of Christ
   
• This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins of Epiphany, 'Hodie in Iordane baptizato Domino ...' (Today, when the Lord was baptized in the Jordan).
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• Initial C with an unidentified bishop saint
   
• The precise moment in the liturgy that this initial begins remains to be determined.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   
• This cutting and its sister cuttings (Lewis E M 26:20-29), all from the same antiphonary, are some of the earliest examples of medieval Italian manuscript illumination in the Free Library's collection. Nearly thirty years after the execution of these initials, the character of Italian illumination and painting would fundamentally change under the leadership of artists such as the Florentine painter Giotto. The abstract tendencies in medieval art seen in these cuttings would eventually give way to a more naturalistic approach to representation, marking the beginning of the Renaissance in the history of art.
   
• These cuttings can be dated to ca. 1260-1270.
   

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• 13th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Antiphonary
• Liturgy
• Illumination
• Fragment

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