Initial B with the Holy Trinity This initial begins the Introit for Trinity Sunday, 'Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas ...' (Blessed be the Holy Trinity). This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a gradual. Although the iconography of this initial suggests that the chant was sung during the celebration of Pentecost Sunday, the exact moment in the liturgy that this initial begins remains to be determined. Initial P with the Pentecost Initial I with a saint communicating with Christ The liturgy that this initial begins remains to be determined. This is the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a gradual. Lewis E M 47:18-20, all from the same manuscript, were done by an anonymous Umbria illuminator active at the turn of the thirteenth century known as the First Master of the Gubbio Choirbooks. He is so-called after a series of choir books illuminated by his hand that are now housed in the State Archives of Gubbio, Italy. These cuttings can be dated to ca. 1300. Script: Rotunda
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