Ms. fragment. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink. Only a few letters visible on dorse. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff. Binding: Housed in an oversize folder. Origin: Produced in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century. From the same manuscript as BPL MS pb. Med. 166. The [E] could be the incipit of the Matins Antiphon "Ego sum vitis" or the Mass Introit "Exclamaverunt ad te," among other possible chants; with only a few letters visible on the dorse, it is therefore impossible to determine from this cutting if this initial was cut from an Office or a... Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1953 from Hoepli. Call number: MS pb Med.165. Former call number: MS 1590. Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.
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