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Antiphonary

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Item No: mcai760441
Additional Title: Antiphonary
Script: Rotunda
Language: Latin
Folio Number: folio 2 verso 76:44
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial P
Notes: Lewis E M 76: 42-44 are four bifolia taken from the same antiphonary. The chants inscribed on Lewis E M 76:44 are not continuous, and the foliation o on the inner verso and recto of the bifolium in Roman numerals indicates that the bifolium was probably the outermost one of the gathering. This leaf was originally fol. LXr (60r). The initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for Ascension Thursday, "Post passionem suam per dies quadraginta ...." (After his Passion, for forty days).
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1654530
Country: Country:Italy

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1499
Image Dimensions Width: 555 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 76:42-44