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Antiphonary

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Item No: mcai450101
Additional Title: Antiphonary
Language: Latin
Folio Number: front 45:10
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Initial S with St. Thomas Aquinas
Notes: This cutting can be dated to ca. 1360-1370.
Notes: This initial begins the first response for the first nocturn of Matins for the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, "Sancti viri verbum propheticum praemonstravit mundo mirificum sanctum Thomam ..." (The prophetic word of the holy man predicted to the world the admirable St. Thomas)

An artist active within the circle of Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna (fl. ca. 1353- 1401), the most famous and prolific Bolognese illuminator working in the second half of the fourteenth century, illuminated Lewis E M 45:6-10.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1602051
Country: Country:Italy
City/Town/Township:Bologna

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1375
Image Dimensions Width: 306 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E M 45:6-10
Creator Name: Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna, workshop - Artist