Layout: 1 column, 6 lines of text with 6 4-line musical staves Decoration: 2-line and 2-staff high puzzle initial “O” in red and blue infilled with rows of delicate flowers and framed by a decorative box, all rendered in fine red and blue penwork Decoration: 2 1-line 1-staff high initials in blue Decoration: prompts and rubrics in red Ruled in brown ink 4-line muscial staves in red with square notation This leaf is a palimpsest that has been turned 90 degrees on its axis, with remains of the now-erased under-text in a later Caroline minuscule with Italian features Provenance: Formerly the property of Otto Ege, Cleveland, OH. Ege broke this manuscript and distributed 40 of its folios as part of his portfolio set, Fifty Original Leaves. See Scott Gwara, Otto Ege’s Manuscripts, HL 27 Antiphons for Vespers for the feasts of St. Lucy, St. Thomas the Apostle, and St. Maur Incipit: …fixit spiritus sanctus ut virgo domini immobilis permaneret Explicit: et valde peccatoribus intercede . Beatissimus
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