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# Long description

This shows a page from the Brussels Manuscript 228. The top half of the page shows the six staves of the tenor part of ‘Ave sanctissima Maria’ and the bottom half shows the three staves of the bass part, in black sixteenth-century notation. The music is surrounded by an illuminated border, with diagonal broad stripes of green, silver and gold decorated with pictures of jewels and flowers. In the top left-hand corner, before the start of the tenor part, is a square miniature showing Margaret of Austria kneeling in prayer. She is dressed in gold and ermine and wears a widow’s hood. The words ‘Memento mei’ can be seen by her mouth. Lower down the page, before the start of the bass part, is another square miniature, showing a coat of arms against a grey background with a daisy in each corner.