Initial A with the Adoration of the Christ Child This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins of Christmas Day, 'Hodie nobis caelorum rex de virgine nasci dignatus' (On this day the king of heaven deigned to be born for us of a Virgin). This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary. This cutting can be dated to ca. 1470.
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