Initial N with the Nativity of the Virgin This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin (Sept. 8), 'Nativitas tua dei genitrix virgo gaudium annunciauit universo mundo ...' (Your birth, O Virgin Mother of God, heralded joy to all the world). This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from an antiphonary. This side of the leaf, the true recto, contains the Magnificat antiphon and the invitatory of the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin. This cutting can be dated to ca. 1325. Script: Gothic bookhand
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