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

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Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Umbria, Italy

Notes

• Although the precise moment in the liturgy that this initial begins remains to be determined, this monk's black robe identifies him as a Benedictine saint who is most likely the order's founder, St. Benedict of Nursia. The book in his left hand would then represent his 'Rule,' the text upon which Western monasticism is founded.
   
• Initial I with St. Benedict of Nursia
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a choir book.
   
• This cutting can be dated to ca. 1275.
   

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Support

Script

Keywords

• 13th century
• Song book
• Musical notation
• Italy
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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