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(NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST.) Vellum leaf from a Latin missal with large and elaborately decorated initial Dat begining of the Introit to the Mass for the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, text written in gothic hand in brown ink beneath 4-line staves in red with square notation in brown, 5 lines, with headings in red and blue, recto and verso. Leaf 535x375 mm, initial 185x170 mm excluding marginal extensions; blank lower outer corner darkened, slight loss of paint in some places on initial. Italy, 15th century
