In this initial beginning an unknown chant, St. Benedict, the sixth-century saint and founder of the Benedictine order, holds a book inscribed with the words, 'Asculta o fili precepta patris tui et inclina aure[m] cordis tui . . .' (Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart). These words are the first of his influential 'Rule,' a set of instructions and... Initial H with St. Benedict of Nursia This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary This cutting can be dated to ca. 1430 - 1440s. Script: Rotunda
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