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Painting of Humbert of Romans, the fifth Master General of the Dominican Order, who was largely responsible for the unification and standardization of the Dominican liturgy.

Image of the colophon. The text of the colophon is written in Latin while the rest of the book is written in Italian. The colophon appears at the end of the third volume and includes a printer's mark.

Image of the first page of the biography of the only woman artist, Properzia de' Rossi, included in this text. She was a sculptress from the city of Bologna. Text under portrait reads "M. PROPERTIA DE' ROSSI SCVLT. BOLOGNESE." Translation: "M.…

Image of the first page of the biography of Giorgio Vasari, the author. Includes a woodblock illustration of the author who was also a painter and an architect himself. Text under the portrait reads "GIORGIO VASARI PITT. ET ARCHIT. ARETINO."…

Image of the title page. We can see from the title page that this edition is dedicated to Ferdinando II, the Grand Duke of Tuscany at the time of its publication.

Image of the engraved frontispiece by Bloemaert in which six figures surround an architectural element displaying the title of the book. Three figures sit in front of the architectural element while a figure who appears to be Medusa lies in front of…

Painting, oil on canvas, of Saint Dominic of Guzman by Claudio Coello c. 1685.

For the penultimate entry in this series, Elettra Conoly ‘21 and Megan Szostak ‘22 post about their research on music in Tufts Univ. MS 24, a Dominican miscellany from Northern Italy.

This manuscript is a collection of writings and chants, with…

14th century missal. Use of the Abbey of Saint-Laurent de Longoret.

Close-up image of a section of notated music and text from MS 24. Isolated in the image are the Do Clef (C Clef), three types of neumes: the punctum, the podatus, and the clivus.