Initial L with the Prophet Isaiah Lewis E M 72:11b contains the initials B.F.,' inscribed on the book held by Isaiah. This initial begins the Introit for the second Mass at Christmas, 'Lux fulgebit hodie ' (The light shone today). The cutting and its sister cutting Lewis E M 72:11a are known to have come from the choir books of the Olivetan monastery of Santi Angelo e Nicolò in Villanova Sillaro near Lodi. These two cuttings and one other in the Free Library's collections (Lewis E M 28:19) were illuminated by... This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
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