The Annunciation to the Virgin, historiated initial on a leaf from a Choirbook, in Latin [Italy (perhaps Perugia), c.1320-30] single leaf, 485x335mm, vellum, with an initial 'M' for the first antiphon at Vespers 'Missus est Gabriel Angelus ...' for the feast of the Annunciation, with three-sided marginal foliate extensions, seven lines of text and music on four-line red staves, rastrum 28mm, old foliation '157' in outer margin of recto, vellum cockled and stained, splits and small holes repaired, considerable losses to the gold leaf, illumination rubbed, cropped, in fair condition
The Annunciation to the Virgin, historiated initial on a leaf from a Choirbook, in Latin [Italy (perhaps Perugia), c.1320-30] single leaf, 485x335mm, vellum, with an initial 'M' for the first antiphon at Vespers 'Missus est Gabriel Angelus ...' for the feast of the Annunciation, with three-sided marginal foliate extensions, seven lines of text and music on four-line red staves, rastrum 28mm, old foliation '157' in outer margin of recto, vellum cockled and stained, splits and small holes repaired, considerable losses to the gold leaf, illumination rubbed, cropped, in fair condition
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