Gradual

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Overview

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Description: Initial A with two devotees adoring the Virgin and Child. Initial A with two devotees adoring the Virgin and Child. This initial marks the beginning of the Introit for the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Sept. 8), 'Salve sancta parens enixa puerpera regem ...' (Hail, Holy Mother, in thy womb there lay a King). A mistake was made at some point in the design of the manuscript because the illuminated initial is inexplicably different from the first letter of the Introit. It was illuminated by the First Master of the Choir books of the Cathedral of Siena, an anonymous artist active in Siena in the last quarter of the thirteenth century.

• Lewis E M 69:6r

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Description: This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a gradual. This side of the leaf, the true recto, contains the Offertory and Communion for a feast preceding the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin. (Physical structure)

• Lewis E M 69:6v

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