Gradual (DS5679) (Q24537)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E M 72:11B, Lewis E M 72:11B, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_072_011b.html)
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Gradual (DS5679)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E M 72:11B, Lewis E M 72:11B, https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_e_m_072_011b.html)

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    5 December 2023
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    Extent: 185 x 166 mm; parchment
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    Initial L with the Prophet Isaiah
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    Lewis E M 72:11b contains the initials B.F.,' inscribed on the book held by Isaiah.
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    This initial begins the Introit for the second Mass at Christmas, 'Lux fulgebit hodie ' (The light shone today). The cutting and its sister cutting Lewis E M 72:11a are known to have come from the choir books of the Olivetan monastery of Santi Angelo e Nicolò in Villanova Sillaro near Lodi. These two cuttings and one other in the Free Library's collections (Lewis E M 28:19) were illuminated by...
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    This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from an antiphonary.
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    14 April 2025
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