Historiated Initial (E) Excised from a Gradual: Adoration of the Magi
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Historiated Initial (E) Excised from a Gradual: Adoration of the Magi (c. 1200–1240). Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.280

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All the essential narrative elements—Mary, the infant Jesus, and the three Magi—are tucked into the lower body of the initial E . Although the initial is now separated from its original context in a gradual, or choir book, it would have marked the beginning of a new chant. In this case it is for the feast of Epiphany (January 6), which celebrates the arrival of the Magi in Bethlehem to see the newborn Christ. The Introit for that Mass begins: Ecce advenit dominator Dominus. . . . (Behold the lord the ruler is come. . . .).

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A medieval illuminated manuscript depicts the three wise men offering gifts to the Virgin Mary and infant Jesus before a radiant star.

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