Extent: 3 fragments : vellum ; 13 x 14 cm. or smaller, mounted together to 47 x 30 cm. print
Abstract
3 historiated initials: (1) the letter "L" (?) with a female martyr (St. Lucy?); (2) letter "S" with a deacon saint (Stephen?); (3) letter "D" with the martyrdom of St. Agatha.
On one verso is text in a large gothic rotunda hand with music on a red 4-line staff. Drawn in tempera and colored inks with gold leaf. Probably north Italian. MS Typ 990. Houghton Library, Harvard University. The Houghton Library accession number 90M-16 and former Fogg Art Museum accession numbers should no longer be used in referring to these fragments. The Fogg Museum numbers correspond to the present item numbers as follows: 1916.35 = no. 1; 1916.36 = no. 2; 1916.37 = no. 3. Also available in an electronic version.
