This initial begins an unidentified chant used in the celebrations for the feast of St. Vincent Ferrer (April 5), a Dominican saint who died in 1419 and was canonized in 1458. The initial was illuminated by an artist within the circle of the Master of Petrarchs Triumphs, so-called from his work in a grand illuminated French manuscript of Petrarchs Triumphs done for Louis XII (r. 1499-1515... This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a choir book.
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