Initial Salve Sancta Parens
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Initial Salve Sancta Parens
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Heritage Images
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Drawing - Illustration
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Initial S[alve sancta parens] from a Gradual: Madonna and Child, circa 1370-1374. Along with several other excised leaves and miniatures that survive in various libraries and museums, this decorated initial S was part of a magnificent gradual produced in the scriptorium of the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence. The Madonna and Child was a standard image for the Saturday votive Mass to the Virgin. This initial originally introduced the text: Salve sancta parens ("Hail, Holy Mother"). Creator Unknown. (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
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