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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.

Description from the British Library: LIBER Prosarum, for the use of the Dominican nunnery of Poissy: a collection of fifty-six proses with musical notation, preceded by some responsoria and, at f. 7 b., the office "ad noviciam recipiendam." A leaf…

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

13th century Dominican Missal from the Abbey of Saint Denis, France.

Late 15th century Dominican Missale from the Abbaye de Saint-Etienne in Dijon, France.

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.

Close-up image of a section of notated music and text from MS 24. Isolated in the image are the text which appears under the corresponding neumes, and two types of neumes: the porrectus flexus and the torculus.

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

Image of the binding showing the front cover.

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…