(Q50966)
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ca. 1325
14. century
1300Gregorian
1350Gregorian
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Extent: fols. 1; membrane; 271 x 191 (164 x 108)
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Layout: 2 columns, 28 lines
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Decoration: 5 2-line and 1 1-line initials in alternating pink and blue with white highlights set on burnished gold grounds extending into columnar bar borders terminating in gold, blue, and red sprays of ivy in the upper and lower margins
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Decoration: occasional bar line fillers in blue, pink, and burnished gold; prompts and rubrics in red 4-line historiated initial "O" inhabited by a Cardinal presenting a cross to a King while a pair of praying figures behind the Cardinal look on. Columnar bar borders terminate on three occasions in the form of winged dragons.
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Provenance: Donated by Susan Coulter (Newtown Square, PA) in honor of Herbert Coulter, June 2022
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For a study of this folio, see: Iacobellis, Lisa Daugherty. ""O Vere Bona et Sancta Crux": OSU.SPEC.RARE.MS.MR.Frag.450 and the Treasured Relics of the Sainte-Chapelle." Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 8 no. 2, 2023, p. 414-429. https://doi.org/10.1353/mns.2023.a916140.
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Incipit: martyrs . oroison . Beatorum martirum tuorum
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Explicit: Christi sanguine redemptus
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Prompts, chants, and readings for Matins for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, with text in both Latin and French.
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26 August 2024
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26 August 2024
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