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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Siena, Italy

Notes

• Initial A with two devotees adoring the Virgin and Child
   
• This initial marks the beginning of the Introit for the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Sept. 8), 'Salve sancta parens enixa puerpera regem ...' (Hail, Holy Mother, in thy womb there lay a King). A mistake was made at some point in the design of the manuscript because the illuminated initial is inexplicably different from the first letter of the Introit. It was illuminated by the First Master of the Choir books of the Cathedral of Siena, an anonymous artist active in Siena in the last quarter of the thirteenth century.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a gradual. This side of the leaf, the true recto, contains the Offertory and Communion for a feast preceding the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin.
   
• Initial D with the Adoration of the Magi
   
• This initial marks the beginning the Introit for the feast of the Epiphany, 'Ecce aduenit dominator dominus ...' (Behold the Lord the Ruler is come). A mistake was made at some point in the design of the manuscript because the illuminated initial is inexplicably different from the first letter of the Introit. It was illuminated by the First Master of the Choir books of the Cathedral of Siena, an anonymous artist active in Siena in the last quarter of the thirteenth century.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a gradual. This side of the leaf, the true verso, continues the Introit for the feast of the Epiphany, which begins on the front.
   
• This image shows an opening of a bifolium with an historiated initial from a gradual.
   
• Initial M with an unidentified female saint
   
• This initial begins the Introit for the Common of Apostles, 'Michi autem nimis honorati sunt amici tui deus ...' (Great reverence have I for thy friends, O God).
   
• This image shows the original recto of a leaf of a bifolium from a gradual. It contains part of the Gradual of a votive Mass for the Virgin Mary.
   
• Lewis E M 69:6-8 are from the same manuscript. Lewis E M 69:8 was, however, illuminated by another artist.
   

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Keywords

• 13th century
• Gradual
• Liturgy
• Italy
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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