Leaf from a Missal with Two Historiated Initials: Initial Per omnia saecula saeculorum (A Priest Celebrates Mass) and Initial Vere dignum et iustum est (Ecclesia and Synagogue), c. 1300. France, Beauvais, late 13th-early 14th Century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 28.5 x 20 cm (11 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.). This leaf and others are known to survive from a magnificent missal made for the use of Beauvais Cathedral. The two large decorated initials illustrate the preface to the Canon of the Mass.
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