Layout: 1 column, 23-24, with irregular numbers of 4-line musical staves Decoration: 1 4-line, 1 3-line, and 1 2-line initials in alternating red and blue with contrasting pework in green and red, respectively, occasionally extending into the margin; liturgical prompts in red 4-line musical staves in red with square notation Later, but still early, foliation in ink at top right corner of recto ("29") Split scar tissue hold in final line of text, with words written around it Provenance: Folio sold to an unidentified previous owner by Ross R. DeVean, a southern California art dealer, in 1953 Text and music for the feasts of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Cantus 007878, --5396) and music identified in the Cantus database as being used for the feast of St. Margaret, but here likely used instead for the Assumption, or for the commemoration of virgins (Cantus 600923 and 600923a). Also included are readings drawn from St. Augustine's "De diversis quaestionibus LXXXIII" (LIX.1-2: "De decem virginibus") Incipit: Diffusa est gratia in labiis Explicit: Christe a discipulis suis de consummatione seculi ; inter…
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