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IM-3900:(580x410mm 22 ½ x 15 ¾’’) Original manuscript leaf from an important manuscript Choirbook. This beautiful four-line stave musical sheet is on animal parchment, written in liturgical gothic script. Interlinear musical notation is in black on a red four-line stave. 

The elaborate illuminated initial is in a floral motif and in colors of red, pink, brushed gold, orange, blue and green with white tracery, on a burnished gold ground. The flamboyant border contains acanthus and flowers of red, pink, blue, green, brushed gold and burnished gold.

From a Gradual of the Benedictine Monastery of Santa Giustina of Padua, 1440-50.

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 large illuminated “E” begins a prayer in honor of Apostles Philip & James.

This leaf was formerly in the collection of C.W. Dyson-Perrins (noted English collector of the late 19^th & early 20^th centuries).