Initials from Choir Books

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Marlay cutting It. 13A: parchment, initial approx. 300 x 270 mm, excised along its contours, mounted on cardboard, fragmentary rubric and 4 fragmentary four-line musical staves on the reverse visible in the elemental maps for zinc (Zn, present in the brown iron-gall ink) and mercury (Hg, the primary component of vermilion red)

 

MS 5-1979: parchment, cutting 170 x 165 mm, initial approx. 150 x 145 mm, mounted on cardboard, 2 fragmentary lines of text and 2 fragmentary four-line musical staves on the reverse visible in the elemental maps for zinc (Zn, present in the brown iron-gall ink) and mercury (Hg, the primary component of vermilion red)

 

Marlay cutting It. 13.i: parchment, initial approx. 220 x 195 mm, excised along its contours, the reverse contains 2 lines of fragmentary iron-gall ink text ruled in plummet and 2 fragmentary four-line musical staves ruled in vermilion red ink

 

Marlay cutting It. 13.ii: parchment, initial approx. 260 x 120 mm, excised along its contours, the reverse contains 3 lines of fragmentary iron-gall ink text ruled in plummet and 2 and a half four-line musical staves ruled in vermilion red ink