Initial A with the Old Testament prophet Daniel This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for the first Sunday in Advent, 'Aspiciebam in visu noctis ...' (I beheld in the vision of the night). The source of the antiphon is Daniel 7:13, in which the prophet foretells the coming of the Son of Man. The initial has been attributed to the Venetian illuminator Cristoforo Cortese, active from ca. 1399 to before 1445... This image shows the reverse of a leaf, here the true verso, with an historiated initial from an antiphonary. The text continues the first response of the first nocturn for the first Sunday in Advent that begins on the front. This cutting can be dated to before 1445. Script: Rotunda
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