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Liturgical
Manuscripts

Initial ‘F’ from a
Gradual with St. John
the Baptist Preaching,
late 14th century

Dominican Missal
with Crucifixion

Attributed to Martino di Bartolomeo

German (Regensburg), ca. 1300

Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment

Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment

Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art,
95-10

Lent by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The
Washburn Fund, 23.66, fols. 72v–73
fig 4
Folio from a Missal
with Initial ‘I’
Italian (Perugia), ca. 1350
Ink, tempera, and gold on parchment
Department of Special Collections, Memorial
Library, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
MS 170a (31-4)
Initial ‘S’ from a Choir Book
with The Celebration of
the Feast of Corpus Christi
and Initial ‘R’ with A
Funeral Scene
Northern French or Flemish, ca. 1375
Tempera and gold on parchment
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, St. John’s
University (Collegeville, Minn.). Bean ms. 3,
fols. 42v-43
The top large initial ‘S’ utilizes the two compartments of the letter to situate the two principal
actors in the liturgical drama being enacted. In
the upper portion, the celebration of the Mass of
Corpus Christi is depicted with the priest facing
the altar at