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

Ferrara, Italy

Notes

• Initial C (or T) with a Benedictine monk
   
• The text following this initial the part of the Creed sung by the choir during Mass, 'Patrem omnipotentem factorem caeli et terre ...' (The almighty Father, maker of heaven and earth). The original chant on this cutting, dating from the fifteenth century, was erased and written over sometime in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Leaves that have been the subject of such recycling efforts to conserve parchment are known as palimpsests, from the Greek word 'palimpsestos' meaning 'scraped again.' The later scribe kept the beautifully illuminated initial, however, which originally began a chant used in the liturgy of a feast dedicated to a Benedictine monk.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a palimpsested leaf with an historiated initial from a gradual.
   

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Support

Script

Keywords

• 15th century
• Gradual
• Liturgy
• Italy
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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