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  • Language: Latin. Scribal title: Incipit ordo siue officium ad benedicendum aquam in epiphaniae. Incipit: // Hodie celi aperti sunt et mare dulce factum est. Explicit: alleluya. de fontibus israel alleluya. psalmus //. Folio range: 15r-v
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Time Period
  • 15th century
Place of Origin
  • Italy
Description
  • A leaf from a fifteenth-century Italian missal, or possibly an ordinal. This leaf contains instructions and chants used in a ceremony for the blessing of holy water during Epiphany.
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • knc_038_001
Keywords
  • Italy
  • Fragment
  • Musical notation
  • Missal
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Liturgy
  • Christian
Title
  • Missal [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Foliation - Pagination: Foliated "XV" in red in upper margin. Page dimensions (in mm): 248 x 182. Written area (in mm): 171 x 110. Line height (in mm): 5.6. Script: Gothic. Script type: Rotunda. Layout: One column ruled in light brown for twenty-eight lines of varying combinations of text and music. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 28. Decoration: Red and blue pen-flourished initials and titles in red. Musical notation: Square notation on four red-colored staff lines with barlines and custos. B-flats indicated.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • 73-21-43 #13 (Accession number)
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Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Knox College Seymour Library Special Collections. Galesburg, IL.
Provenance
  • Item donated to Knox College by Harriet Robbins Moses (1888-1973) of Salina, KS as part of a bequest through her estate in 1973. Moses graduated from Knox College in 1912.

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