Initial D: Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, cutting from a gradual
A cutting from a Gradual, a liturgical choir book of chanted Mass texts, made around 1330 by the Master of the Dominican Effigies and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The page shows square musical notation on red four-line staves beside red and blue Latin text, with a historiated initial D showing Christ's entry into Jerusalem inside a blue panel dotted with gold. A designer might borrow the framed initial, the gold-on-blue palette, and the balance of illuminated letter against dense text block.
