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

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Venice, Italy

Notes

• Initial A with the Old Testament prophet Daniel
   
• This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for the first Sunday in Advent, 'Aspiciebam in visu noctis ...' (I beheld in the vision of the night). The source of the antiphon is Daniel 7:13, in which the prophet foretells the coming of the Son of Man. The initial has been attributed to the Venetian illuminator Cristoforo Cortese, active from ca. 1399 to before 1445, when a document refers to him as already dead. Several other leaves in the Free Library have also been attributed to Cortese.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf, here the true verso, with an historiated initial from an antiphonary. The text continues the first response of the first nocturn for the first Sunday in Advent that begins on the front.
   
• This cutting can be dated to before 1445.
   

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Support

Script

Keywords

• 15th century
• Antiphonary
• Liturgy
• Italy
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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