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IM-1465: Original manuscript leaf from an important mid-15^th century Choir Book on animal vellum.  Four lines of music, written in liturgical gothic script with interlinear musical notation in black on a red four-line stave. The flamboyant illuminated initial “M” is in pink, blue, green & gold with white & gold tracery within a border of burnished gold & infill of blue, pink, red, green & burnished gold. The elaborate panel border contains a floral motif in colors of red, pink, orange, blue, green, brushed gold & burnished gold. From a Gradual of the Benedictine Monastery of Santa Giustina of Padua, 1440-50.

This leaf was formerly in the collection of C.W. Dyson-Perrins (noted English collector of the late 19^th & early 20^th centuries). A series of richly decorated choirbooks was made for S. Giustina in Padua in the early to mid 15^th century. There are now four in the Biblioteche Capitolare in Padua.

The highly elaborate illuminated “M” begins Psalm 33 (King James 34):20: “Multe…” (Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them…).