Layout: 1 column, 5 lines of text and 5 4-line musical staves Decoration: 5 1-line 1-staff high initials in red or blue framed and infilled with elaborate red and blue penwork with green accents; prompts and rubrics in red; occasional capital letters, especially those following each large initial, embellished with black penwork and green tinting; and occasionaly pilcrows with Roman numeral in margins in red and blue ink Ruled in faint brown ink 4-line musical staves in red with square notation Early foliation in ink in bottom right corner in each recto Provenance: Donated by Charles Hoff in 1985, formerly Spec.Rare.CMS.113, 1985.027.001-003 Old description from the Wexner Center for the Arts crediting the decorated initials to the pen of Frater Julianus of Florence Incipit: Fol. 188.151: in dominum iesum / christum Fol. 188.154: …dis et redde altissimo / vota Fol. 188.158: non sum estuatus Explicit: Fol. 188.151: Gaudeo plane… Fol. 188.154: dolorem sed / refrigerium mi… Fol. 188.158: ad i / gnem applicatus te Christum Chants and music for the feast of St. Lawrence
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