Extent: 2 leaves (4 pages) : vellum, music, illustrations ; 603 x 902 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger. Two front-to-back vellum leaves from a 16th-century Italian or Spanish gradual, written in a large liturgical rotunda script in black ink with rubrics in red. Decorated with large initials in alternating red and blue. Initials are in the Gothic/Lombardic style, featuring intricate pen-flourishing in contrasting colors. Verso of second leaf is transcribed as: "O mors, ero mors tua: morsus tuus ero in ferne." Written in a large Gothic Rotunda script in black ink with red staff lines; includes square musical notation on a five-line staff. Decorated with two large calligraphic initials in black ink, featuring intricate interlaced strapwork and flourishes. Textblock: 445 x 724 mm. Written, in pencil, at the bottom of front page, "From the Library of Stanley Slotkin, Founder of Abbey Rents, Circa 1540."
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