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(FANTASTIC CREATURE.) Vellum leaf from a Latin antiphonary with large historiated initial O showing strange bird-like creature, text written in gothic hand in black ink beneath 4-line staves in red with square notation in black, 7 lines, recto and verso. 3 initials alternately in red and blue with contrasting penwork decoration. Leaf 465x342 mm, initial approximately 90x94 mm excluding marginal extensions; light soiling in lower margin on both sides, vellum slightly yellowed on verso. Italy, circa 1320
