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

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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Origin

Place

Perugia?, Italy

Notes

• Initial I with St John the Evangelist blessing a Benedictine monk
   
• This initial begins the Introit for the feast of St. John the Evangelist (Dec. 27), 'In medio ecclesie apperunt os eius...' (In the middle of the temple, he opened his mouth).
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a gradual. This side of the leaf, the true recto, contains the Offertory for the feast of St. Laurence (Aug. 10).
   
• Initial G with the Coronation of the Virgin Mary
   
• This initial begins the Introit for the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, 'Gaudeamus omnes in domino diem festi celebrantes sub honore Marie virginis ...' (Let all rejoice in the Lord, celebrating a festival day in honor of the Virgin Mar).
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with an historiated initial from a gradual. This side of the leaf, the true recto, contains the Offertory for the feast of St. Laurence (Aug. 10).
   
• These cuttings can be dated to ca. 1325.
   

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Script

Keywords

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

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