<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Antiphonary (fragment).</dc:title><dc:date>[between 1150 and 1199]</dc:date><dc:language>lat</dc:language><dc:description>Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing among other items: First Sunday of Advent; Christmas; Christmas Eve; St. Stephen (26 December); St. Silvester (31 December); St. Agnes (21 January); Conversion of Saint Paul (25 January); and Purification of the Virgin (2 February).</dc:description><dc:description>In Latin.</dc:description><dc:description>Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by several scribes.</dc:description><dc:description>Decoration: 7-line responsory initial "D" is a red uncial with red and black penwork and a portrait of St. Agnes; 4-line responsory initial "A" in red with vine-stem decoration; 1-line initials of "O" antiphons are in red capitals; other 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; rubrics in red minuscule.</dc:description><dc:description>It is possible that not all these leaves come from the same manuscript. They were written by several scribes, and the written space varies.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>