Initial N with St. Anne holding Mary and the Christ-Child This initial begins the first antiphon of Lauds for the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin (Sept. 8), 'Nativitas gloriosa virginis maria ex semina abrahe' (It is the Nativity of the glorius Virgin Mary, sprung from the seed of Abraham). Lewis E M 65:1-78 were once thought to have come from a single manuscript associated with the Cistercian monastery at Zwettl in Austria. It has been... 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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