RESURRECTION, historiated initial A cut from a choirbook, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[southern Germany, possibly Augsburg, last quarter 15th century]
115 x 102mm. Christ rises from the tomb surrounded by four sleeping soldiers.
Framed and glazed (unexamined out of frame).
The initial opens the antiphon for lauds on Easter Sunday, 'Angelus autem domini descendit...'
RESURRECTION, historiated initial A cut from a choirbook, illuminated manuscript on vellum
[southern Germany, possibly Augsburg, last quarter 15th century]
115 x 102mm. Christ rises from the tomb surrounded by four sleeping soldiers.
Framed and glazed (unexamined out of frame).
The initial opens the antiphon for lauds on Easter Sunday, 'Angelus autem domini descendit...'
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