Initial T with the Lamentation of Christ This initial begins the first words of the Canon of the Roman Mass, 'Te igitur, clementissme Pater, per Iesum Christum Filium tuum Dominum nostrum, supplices rogamus ac petimus' (We therefore, humbly pray and beseech thee, most merciful Father, through Jesus Christ, thy son, our lord). In the narrative of Christ's Passion, the lamentation over Christ's dead body follows his deposition from the... This cutting can be dated to ca. 1520. This image shows the reverse of a cutting with a decorated initial from a missal. Script: Rotunda
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