BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN, miniature cut from an illustrated choirbook on vellum [Spain, mid-16th century] An enormous and accomplished illustration in a technique rarely found in choirbooks: a drawing in pen and ink with sepia and pink wash . 295 x 374mm. This ‘miniature’ was presumably on the upper half of a folio with the opening of a Feast to the Virgin, the verso with two lines of music on a five-line stave of red carrying the end of the chant, ‘Beatam me dicent omnes generationes’, perhaps serving as the Alleluia for the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin (small losses to surface especially along lines of staves, smudges of red and folds evident on verso).
BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN, miniature cut from an illustrated choirbook on vellum [Spain, mid-16th century] An enormous and accomplished illustration in a technique rarely found in choirbooks: a drawing in pen and ink with sepia and pink wash . 295 x 374mm. This ‘miniature’ was presumably on the upper half of a folio with the opening of a Feast to the Virgin, the verso with two lines of music on a five-line stave of red carrying the end of the chant, ‘Beatam me dicent omnes generationes’, perhaps serving as the Alleluia for the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin (small losses to surface especially along lines of staves, smudges of red and folds evident on verso).
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