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

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Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Place

Padua, Italy

Notes

• Initial N with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple
   
• This initial begins the antiphon for Vespers of the feast of the Purification of the Virgin (Feb. 2), 'Nunc dimittis domine seruum tuum in pace ...' (Now send, O Lord, your servant in peace).
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a antiphonary. This side of the leaf, the true verso, continues the liturgy for Vespers of the feast of the Purification of the Virgin, which begins on the front.
   
• Initial S with St. Paul
   
• This initial begins the Response for the first nocturn of matins of the feast of St. Paul (June 30), 'Scio cui credidi...' (I know whom I have believed).
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a antiphonary. This side of the leaf, the true verso, continues the Response for the first nocturn of matins of the feast of St. Paul, which begins on the front.
   
• These initials were illuminated by Antonio da Villafora, a Paduan illuminator whose activity can be documented from 1469 -1511.
   
• These cuttings can be dated to ca. 1500-1511.
   

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Keywords

• 16th century
• Antiphonary
• Liturgy
• Italy
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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