Ms. leaf. Layout: On fol. a, recto, written in 10 long lines, with four 4-line red staves and mensuration lines in red, C clefs and square notation in black; on verso, 16 long lines; ruled lightly in ink with single inner and outer vertical bounding lines. Script: Gothic textualis. Decoration: On fol. a, recto: Staff-height illuminated initial E in blue, with original penwork decoration lightly visible in faded pink. Marginal decoration on recto by later hand (overlaps roman numeral, XL VIII, in upper right-hand corner); full framing border of neo-classical grotteschi motifs with acanthus vinescroll, sea horses, and dolphins in blue, red, and green; historiated roundels... Origin: Text written and rubricated in Italy ca. 1480; painted marginal decoration added later, possibly in the eighteenth or nineteenth century; attribution made in consultation with Consuelo Dutschke. Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962. Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 009.
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