Initial D with St. John the Baptist This initial begins the Introit for the feast of St. John the Baptist (June 24), 'De ventre matris meae uocauit me dominus nomine meo ...' (When I was still lying in my mother's womb the Lord sent his summons to me by name). Much of the initial has been restored by a nineteenth-century hand, but the style recalls the work of Sienese illumination of the fifteenth century. This initial has been retouched. This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a gradual.
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