Initial C (or T) with a Benedictine monk The text following this initial the part of the Creed sung by the choir during Mass, 'Patrem omnipotentem factorem caeli et terre ...' (The almighty Father, maker of heaven and earth). The original chant on this cutting, dating from the fifteenth century, was erased and written over sometime in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Leaves that have been the subject of such recycling efforts... This image shows the reverse of a palimpsested leaf with an historiated initial from a gradual. Script: Rotunda
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