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Bifolium Excised from an Antiphonary: Initial D[ominus Iesus] with the Calling of Peter and Andrew

Cleveland Museum of Art

Medieval-style manuscript page with musical notation and illuminated design. The page is off-white with age-related brown spots and darker brown edges. Red musical notation lines run across the page with holes punched through them. Brown calligraphy writing appears above and below the lines. A colorful oval frame is at the top left, containing a scene of two men in robes standing on a rocky shoreline, and two men in the water. The frame has green, blue, red, gold, and white colors. A border on the left side features colorful flowers and curled vines. At the bottom, a blue shield with a red cross and red and white diagonal stripes is flanked by more colorful curled vines and flowers. Red calligraphy writing appears to the right of the oval frame. The number "1" appears in red in the middle right of the page.

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650 × 893 px
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