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

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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Place

Perugia, Italy

Notes

• Initial E
   
• Ornament in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts can be quite fanciful. In this initial, the letter E resembles a laurel wreath, a motif borrowed from Classical art. The horizontal bar ends in the torso of a crowned and winged caryatid, again another decorative motif with origins in the Classical world. 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. Lewis E M 29:13-15 are from the same manuscript.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with a decorated initial from a choir book.
   
• Initial M or O
   
• The vertical bar dividing the letter ends in the torso of a crowned and winged caryatid, a decorative motif with origins in the Classical world. Such displays of imagination usually carried very little symbolism; here, however, the cross and the bishop's crozier are suggestive of the ecclesiastical use for which this choir book was intended. Lewis E M 29:13-15 are from the same manuscript.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with a decorated initial from a choir book.
   
• Initial E
   
• Ornament in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts can be quite fanciful. The lower curve of the initial is formed by the torso of a female figure suggestive of a winged mermaid. As with the other initials from this manuscript (Lewis E 29:13 and 14), this motif has its origins in the Classical world. 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.
   
• These cuttings can be dated to the 15th or 16th centuries.
   

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Keywords

• 16th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Song book
• Musical notation
• Illustration
• Fragment

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