Single Leaf Excised from a Gradual and Sacramentary: Initial A[d te lavavi]

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Single Leaf Excised from a Gradual and Sacramentary: Initial A[d te lavavi]

Date
c. 1000–1010
Medium
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Culture
Austria, Salzburg
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

A large initial A introduces the opening words from Psalm 25, Ad te levavi animam meam (Unto thee have I lifted up my soul). The volume to which this leaf belonged may have been produced in the scriptorium of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter at Salzburg.

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