Leaf from an Antiphonary with Historiated Initial (H) with The Nativity (recto)
early 1300s
Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.285.a
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 ill...
Manuscript
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en
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Source image fields (4)
Terms
Culture
Italy, Tuscany
Technique
ink, tempera, and gold on parchment
Genre
Manuscript
Department
Medieval Art
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