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Epistolary (Epistolarium). [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]

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Title	Epistolary (Epistolarium). [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]
Date	1450
Date approximate?	yes
Creator	Ege, Otto F.
Subject headings	Manuscripts, Medieval -- Specimens Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens Illumination of books and manuscripts Manuscripts, Medieval
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	Epistolaries are among the rarest of liturgical manuscripts. Their text consists of the Epistles and Gospels with lessons from the Old Testament for particular occasions. Sometimes, as in this leaf, they had interlinear neumes in red to assist the deacon or sub-deacon in chanting parts of this section of the church service while he was standing on the second step in front of the altar. The text is written in well executed rotunda gothic script with bold Lombardic initials. Some of the filigree decoration which surrounds the initial letters has faded because it was executed in some of the fugitive colors which were then prepared from the juices of such flowers and plants as tumeric, saffron, lilies, and prugnameroli (buckthorn berries) . Italy: Epistolary. Middle 15th C. Latin text; Rotunda or Round Gothic script; square rhetorical neumes.
Type	Text
Original format	manuscripts
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	la
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts: Western Europe XII-XVI century Ege Descriptions
Folder	Leaf 37
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	Z6605.L3 E44_37
Digital master format	Image/tiff
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	882569410

Epistolary (Epistolarium). [leaf from Ege medieval manuscripts]

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