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Decorated Initial V
Creator
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- late 15th or early 16th century
- Medium
- Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Manuscripts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 25a63316-2769-4223-b318-8e0b9846ff08
From the Getty Museum record
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.
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