Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Perugia, Italy

Notes

• Initial G
   
• Ornament in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts can be quite fanciful. In this initial, the head of a bird of prey, forming the end of the upper curve of the letter G, bears down with an open beak on the head of a man, forming the end of the lower curve, who glances fearfully up at his attacker. Such displays of imagination usually carried very little symbolism; rather, their purpose seems to have been to enliven the otherwise flat surface of the page.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with a decorated initial from a choir book.
   
• Border ornaments
   
• These cuttings can be dated to the 15th or 16th centuries.
   
• These cuttings contain ornament that would have decorated the borders of a manuscript leaf or formed part of the flourish of a decorated initial.
   

Extent

Support

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Song book
• Musical notation
• Illustration
• Fragment

Licenses

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