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Folio 4 recto of Tufts University MS 21, Biblia Latina. The left side of the folio includes an ornate historiated initial, depicting scenes from the seven days of creation and a scene of Christ's crucifixion.

Detail of folio 76 verso of Tufts University MS 21, Biblia Latina. Historiated initial depicts Joshua holding a scroll below the face of God.

Detail of folio 145 verso of Tufts University MS 21, Biblia Latina. Historiated initial depicts several standing figures and includes a zoomorphic dragon figure.

Upper pastedown of Tufts University MS 21. Apparent in this image are several provenance markings, including a bookplate attributing ownership to Maurice Burrus, famed stamp and ephemera collector.

Description from the Bodleian Library: Sanctorale (fol. 1), beginning with St. Stephen (26 Dec.); common of the saints (fol. 76v); some votive masses and masses for the dead (fol. 82); kyriale (fol. 84v); Dominican proses in honour of the Virgin…

Two folia of neumatic notation. Notated music and text of two sequences: Ave virgo virginum, Tibi cordis in altari.

Folio 250v continues the notated sequence Tibi cordis in altari. On Folio 251r begins a text by Thomas Aquinas,Incipit tractatus de articulis fidei et ecclesie sacramentis per Fratrem Thomas de Aquino.

Image of the binding showing the front cover.

Translation from Latin to English of the sequence Ave virgo virginum in Tufts University MS24, Dominican Miscellany.

Transcription of text and melody of theAve virgo virginum sequence as it appears in MS 24.