Item Info
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front 65:64
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial A
Notes: These leaves can be dated to ca. 1430-1440.
Notes: This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins of the first Sunday of Advent, "Aspiciens a longe ecco video Dei potentiam venientem ..." (Long, long had I been watching).
Lewis E M 65:1-78 were once thought to have come from a single manuscript associated with the Cistercian monastery at Zwettl in Austria. It has been determined, however, that the leaves are from a number of separate manuscripts and were likely produced by a team of scribes and artists at the scriptorium of the Benedictine monastery at Melk.
Sirsi Catalog Key:
1608452
Country:
Country:Austria
City/Town/Township:Melk
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin):
1450
Image Dimensions Width:
520 mm
ShelfMark:
Lewis E M 65:1-78