Historiated Initial (E) Excised from a Gradual: Adoration of the Magi

c. 1200–1240 Source image
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All the essential narrative elements—Mary, the infant Jesus, and the three Magi—are tucked into the lower body of the initial E. Although the initial is now separated from its original context in a gradual, or choir book, it would have marked the beginning of a new chant. In t...

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