Initial I with St. John the Evangelist This initial begins the Introit for the feast of John the Evangelist (Dec. 27), 'In medio ecclesiae aperuit os ejus,' (In the middle of the church, he opened his mouth). It was executed by an illuminator known as the Master of the Dominican Effigies after his eponymous manuscript in the Florentine church Santa Maria Novella. Active in Florence throughout the second quarter of the fourteenth... This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a gradual.
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