Initial E with Christ surrounded by his Apostles with an unidentified saint This initial probably begins the response for the first nocturn of Matins of the Common of the Apostles, 'Ecce ego mitto vos sicut oves in medio luporum ...' (Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves). An artist active within the circle of Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna (fl. ca. 1353- 1401), the most famous and prolific Bolognese illuminator working in the second half of... This cutting can be dated to ca. 1360-80.
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