Initial O with the Virgin and Child This initial begins the first antiphon of Lauds for the feast of the Circumcision (Jan. 1), 'O admirabile commercium creator generis humani animatum corpus sumens de vigine nasci dignatus est ' (O wondrous commerce, the creator of humanity having assumed a living body, deigned to be born of a virgin ). Lewis E M 65:1-78 were once thought to have come from a single manuscript associated with... These leaves can be dated to ca. 1430-1440. This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from an antiphonary Script: Gothic bookhand
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