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Epistolarium

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@ University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Latin text in rotunda or round gothic script, square rhetorical neumes.Epistolaries are among the rarest of liturgical manuscripts. Their text consists of the Epistles and Gospels with lessons from the Old Testament for particular occasions. Sometimes, as in this leaf, they had interlinear neumes in red to assist the deacon or sub-deacon in chanting parts of this section of the church service while he was standing on the second step in front of the altar. This text is written in well executed rotunda gothic script with bold Lombardic initials. Some of the filigree decoration which surrounds the initial letters has faded because it was executed in some of the fugitive colors which were then prepared from the juices of such flowers and plants as turmeric, saffron, lilies, and prugnameroli (buckwheat thorn berries).
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Text
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Manuscripts (Document Genre)Manuscripts Vellum (Parchment)Gothic Scripts
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Keywords

  1. Bible. Gospels

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