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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015
Leaf from an Antiphonary with Historiated Initial (H) with The Nativity (recto) and Music (verso)
Leaf from an Antiphonary with Historiated Initial (H) with The Nativity (recto) and Music (verso)
early 1300s
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Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment
Sheet: 53 x 38 cm (20 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.285
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This enormous initial h illustrates the beginning of the text of the first matins response for Christmas Day: Hodie nobis celorum rex (“On this day the King of Heaven”). The initial is appropriately decorated with a scene of Christ’s nativity. Along with other painters and illuminators, Neri da Rimini established the school of Rimini, characterized by a painting style owing much to the work of Giotto, who he perhaps encountered in Padua.
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