Annunciation in an Initial M, ca. 1310–15, Tempera and gold on parchment, 5 3/8 x 5 1/4 in. (13.6 x 13.4cm), Manuscripts and Illuminations, Maestro Daddesco (Italian, Florence, active ca. 1320–40) (?), The initial M illustrates an antiphon for the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25): Missus est Gabriel Angelus ad Mariam Virginem ('The Angel Gabriel was sent to the Virgin Mary'). In this initial, the illuminator used the form of the letter M to divide and frame the figures of the Virgin and the angel Gabriel, kneeling before her
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