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Decorated Initial V   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Unknown – illuminator
Title
Decorated Initial V
title QS:P1476,en:"Decorated Initial V"
label QS:Len,"Decorated Initial V"
Object type Folio
Description

A decorated initial V opens the introit for Ascension day, Viri galilei quid admiramini aspitie[n]tes (Men of Galilee, why are you astonished gazing up?). Set apart from the rest of the text by its large size, color, and all'antica handling, the initial is particularly elegant. A variety of forms from antiquity-vine leaves, wreaths, decorative arabesques, and gems-sprout from the letter's armature. A scribe wrote the music in square notation, a system developed in the Middle Ages and still used today.

Text: Introitus (Gesang)7Introit of the feast Christi Himmelfahrt/Feast of the Ascension
Date late 15th or early 16th century
Medium "Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment bound between original wood boards covered with brown leather"
Dimensions height: 641 mm (25.23 in); width: 435 mm (17.12 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,641U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,435U174789
institution QS:P195,Q29247
Accession number
lido.getty.edu-gm-obj110064
Notes More info at museum site
Source/Photographer KwGusUmnnPVtXg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

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