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Item No: mcai680011
Additional Title: Antiphonary
Script: Rotunda
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial I with the Aspersion of the Holy Water
Notes: This initial begins the first response for the first nocturn of Matins for the Dedication of a Church, "In dedicatione templi decantabat populus laudem ..." (At the dedication of the church, the people sang songs of praise). The figure in the initial, a cleric, is performing the ritual of sprinkling the new church with holy water, also known as the Lustration or Washing of the Church.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1625381
Country: Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Venice ?
Cardinal Point:northern

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1299
Image Dimensions Width: 510 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 68:1

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