Item Info

Script: Gothic bookhand
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial N with the Nativity of the Virgin
Notes: This cutting can be dated to ca. 1325.
Notes: This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin (Sept. 8), "Nativitas tua dei genitrix virgo gaudium annunciauit universo mundo ..." (Your birth, O Virgin Mother of God, heralded joy to all the world).
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1644496
Country: Country:Flanders

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1325
Image Dimensions Width: 346 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 42:17