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IM-1436: (580x410mm 22 1/2 x 15 3/4'') 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.

One elaborate 2.5'' square illuminated initial ''B'' in a floral motif and in colors of red, pink, brushed gold, orange, and green with white tracery, on a blue ground with white tracery, and surrounded by a border of burnished gold.

This beautiful four-line stave musical sheet is from a Gradual of the Benedictine Monastery of Santa Giustina of Padua, 1440-50. A series of richly decorated choir books 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.

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

The first line continues Psalm 33 (King James 34):18 ''Exaudivit...'' (The Lord heard them and delivered them out of all their troubles). The large illuminated ''B'' begins Psalm 33:2: ''Benedicam...'' (I will bless the Lord at all times...).