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Manuscript Leaf with Music & Illuminated Initial. Single Parchment Leaf from a Gradual. Italy, likely Bologna, 14th century.
Oversized folio format leaf featuring four bar music and lyrics, including a large initial N with a full-length portrait of John the Baptist to begin the introit for the vigil of the saint, "Ne timeas Zacharia," decorated in orange, red, green and blue; text above with numerous initials decorated in red and blue, some flaking to paint, formerly folded; ex libris Otto Oren Fischer (1881-1961); 20 x 14 1/4 in.
