Initial D: The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, cutting from a gradual
A manuscript cutting from a gradual, made around 1480 by Giovanni Antonio Decio, probably in Italy, for liturgical use in a church or choir. The single picture is an illuminated initial D showing Christ calling Saints Peter and Andrew, set in a dense frame of gold and acanthus scrolls. A designer might take its interlaced green and blue foliage, gilded ground and tight framing of a narrative scene inside a decorative letter.
