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

Melk, Austria

Notes

• Initial E with St. John the Baptist
   
• This initial begins the first antiphon of Lauds for the feast of St. John the Baptist (June 24), 'Elisabeth Zacharie magnum virum genuit johannem baptistam precursorem domini' (Elizabeth [the wife] of Zachary, gave birth to a great man, John the Baptist, the precursor of Christ).Lewis E M 65:1-78 were once thought to have come from a single manuscript associated with the Cistercian monastery at Zwettl in Austria. It has been determined, however, that the leaves are from a number of separate manuscripts and were likely produced by a team of scribes and artists at the scriptorium of the Benedictine monastery at Melk.
   
• These leaves can be dated to ca. 1430-1440.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
   

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Script

Keywords

• 15th century
• Antiphonary
• Liturgy
• Austrian
• Austria
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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