Leaf from an Antiphonary: Floral Initial (recto)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from an Antiphonary: Floral Initial (recto)

c. 1475

Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Churches had mostly two copies of this book because the clergymen were sitting in the coir stall on both sides of the high altar and therefore needed a copy for each side.

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