Ms. fragment. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Layout: Two staves extant on verso. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff. Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics. Decoration: Recto: two-staff high historiated floriate initial in colors on gold, with leafy border in colors with gold balls, The Slaughter of the Innocents: Two women hold their infants, one of whom is threatened by a knife-wielding servant observed by enthroned Herod at the right; several slaughtered, swaddled infants on the ground. Verso: 1/2-staff high initial in green filled with red and... Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder. Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century. Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Hoepli, Milan. Call number: MS pb Med.176. Former call number: MS 1601.
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