Single Leaf Excised from a Gradual and Sacramentary: Initial A[d te lavavi], c. 1000-1010. Austria, Salzburg, early 11th Century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 22 x cm (8 11/16 x 6 9/16 in.). A large initial A introduces the opening words from Psalm 25, Ad te levavi animam meam (Unto thee have I lifted up my soul). The volume to which this leaf belonged may have been produced in the scriptorium of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter at Salzburg.

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