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

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Italy (central)

Notes

• Initial M
   
• The precise moment in the liturgy that this initial begins remains to be determined. The interlace pattern resulting from the entwined necks of the two birds that form the letter 'M' demonstrates the enduring legacy of pre-Christian Celtic design motifs in medieval art.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an decorated initial from a choir book.
   

Extent

Support

Script

Keywords

• 12th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Song book
• Musical notation
• Illustration
• Illumination
• Fragment

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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