Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Ferrara, Italy

Notes

• Initial C with God the Father
   
• This initial begins the hymn, 'Conditor alme syderum ...' (Creator of the stars at night), typically sung at Vespers during Advent.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a hymnal. This side of the leaf, the true verso, contains hymns sung during Matins and Lauds during Advent.
   
• Initial D with David pointing to his eye
   
• This initial begins Psalm 26, 'Dominus illuminatio mea ...' (The Lord is my light), read at Matins on Mondays.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a ferial psalter. This side of the leaf, the true recto, contains the hymn, 'Somno refectis artubus ...' ( Our limbs refreshed with slumber now), sung at Matins on Mondays.
   
• Initial S with David in the Waters
   
• This initial begins Psalm 68, 'Salvum me fac deus quem intraverunt aque usquem ad animam meam ...' (Save me, O God, for the waters have come up even unto my soul), read at Matins on Thursday.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a ferial psalter. This side of the leaf, the true recto, contains the hymn, 'Nox atra rerum contegit ...' (The dusky veil of night) sung at Matins on Thursdays.
   
• Initial E with a Musician playing a lute
   
• This initial begins Psalm 80, 'Exultate deo adiutori nostro ...' (Rejoice in the Lord our helper), read at Matins on Fridays.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a ferial psalter. This side of the leaf, the true verso, continues Psalm 80, which begins on the front.
   
• Lewis E M 70:5-8 are from the same manuscript illuminated by Giuglielmo Giraldi, a Ferrarese illuminator whose activity can be documented from 1445-1490.
   
• These cuttings can be dated to ca. 1470-1480.
   

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Keywords

• 15th century
• Song book
• Musical notation
• Psalter
• Bible
• Biblical
• Italy
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Hymnal
• Fragment

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