Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vita S. Benedicti
Italy, perhaps in Padua, ca. 1450
MS M.184 inside cover pastedown

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Book cover, interior: Decorated initial P with floreate ornament in filling, the initial issuing from vessel. Music is on five-lined staves and with neumes of a square-shaped notation. Text is Creed: PATREM OMNIPOTENTEM, FACTOREM CELI ET TERRAE .... Manuscript folio used as bookseller’s waste likely from a 17c. Italian Antiphonal (pastedown). Condition: Cropped.