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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Bologna, Italy

Notes

• This bifolium from a choir book contains portions of the Gospel Lesson for Epiphany, beginning on the recto of the first folio with Luke 3:21, 'Factum est aute[m] cum baptizaretur omnis populus ...' (Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized). The text of the lesson breaks between the two folios shown here indicating that at least one other bifolium came between the two leaves of this bifolium.
   
• Initial D with a Deacon chanting from a book
   
• In medieval celebrations of the Mass, the Gospel Lesson was intoned, or chanted, by a deacon. In the initial D, a deacon points to a representation of the same book from which a real deacon would chant the text. Opposite the initial, in the right margin, are traces of instructions left for the illuminator, who would come back after the text and musical notation had been inscribed to fill in the spaces for the illumination. Although the note has been mostly trimmed away, it indicates that an image of a deacon reading should be placed in the initial.
   
• The text on this folio is from Luke 3:31-32.
   
• This leaf has been dated to ca. 1325. Notes to illuminator in right margin of fol. 1r, partially trimmed away: 'Hic ... e[ss]e u[...] diaco[num] le[gere] eua[n]g[elium].
   

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Keywords

• 14th century
• Song book
• Musical notation
• Italian
• Italy
• Gospels
• Illumination
• Fragment

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