Initial O with St. Anthony Abbot and St. Paul the Hermit This initial probably began the Introit for the Common of Abbots, 'Os justi meditabitur sapientiam ...' (Right reason is on the good man's lips) in a gradual. The iconography supports this identification. St. Anthony Abbot and St. Paul the Hermit belong to a group of third- and fourth-century saints known as the Desert Fathers. The Desert Fathers were men who fled to the Egyptian desert to... This is the reverse of a cutting of an historiated initial from a gradual. Script: Rotunda
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