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Single Leaf Excised from a Gradual and Sacramentary: Initial A[d te lavavi]

c. 1000–1010
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Sheet: 22 x 16.7 cm (8 11/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1933.447
Location: not on view
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A large initial A introduces the opening words from Psalm 25, Ad te levavi animam meam (Unto thee have I lifted up my soul). The volume to which this leaf belonged may have been produced in the scriptorium of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter at Salzburg.

Single Leaf Excised from a Gradual and Sacramentary: Initial A[d te lavavi]

c. 1000–1010

Austria, Salzburg

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