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

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Siena, Italy

Notes

• Initial R with the Resurrection
   
• This initial begins the Introit for Easter Sunday, 'Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum ...' (I have risen and am still with you).
   
• This image shows the verso of the second leaf of a bifolium with an historiated initial. It contains contains part of the Gradual and the beginning of the Offertory for Easter Tuesday.
   
• This image shows the verso of a leaf of a bifolium with an historiated initial from a gradual. It continues the Introit for Easter Sunday, which begins on the recto, and contains part of the Gradual.
   
• This image shows the recto of the second leaf of a bifolium with an historiated initial from a gradual. It contains contains part of the Gradual for Easter Tuesday.
   
• Initial S with Bishop Saint
   
• This initial begins the Introit for the Common of Bishop Saints, 'Sacerdotes tui domine induant iustitiam ...' (Let thy priests, O Lord, be clothed with justice).
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a gradual. This side of the leaf, the true verso, continues one Introit and begins another for the Common of Bishop Saints.
   
• Lewis E M 69:12-13 were illuminated by Lippo di Vanni, a Sienese illuminator whose activity can be documented from 1344-72. These leaves originally belonged to a choir book that survives in only a few leaves scattered in other American and European collections.
   
• These cuttings can be dated to ca. 1345.
   

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Script

Keywords

• 14th century
• Gradual
• Liturgy
• Italy
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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