Illuminated Initial "A" from a Psalter or Breviary

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Title

Illuminated Initial "A" from a Psalter or Breviary

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality)

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1450–1459

Medium

Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with Latin inscriptions in brown and red ink, unruled, on vellum

Dimensions

13.7 × 9.6 cm (5 7/16 × 3 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

W. Moses Willner Fund

Reference Number

1915.552b

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