Leaf from a Gradual with Historiated Initial (G): Mary as Queen of Heaven

c. 1425–1450 Source image
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This initial G introduces the Feast of the Assumption (August 15) in the gradual, a choir book used for singing the Latin Mass. The historiated initial bears the image of the Virgin, alone and unaccompanied by saints, borne aloft by angels. The Virgin was believed to have been...

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