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"inscription": "Responsorium 1\nLoquie domine quia audit servus tuus : Ait Samuel\nPreparate Corda vestra domino et Servite illi soli et liberabit nos de manibus inimicorum vestorum Confitemini ad deum...",
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"description": "This leaf is distinguished by a large initial P depicting Samuel, the last and one of the greatest of Israel\u2019s judges. It introduces the text Preparte corda vestra domino et servite (\u201cPrepare your hearts for the Lord and serve\u201d). In the lower margin are the arms of the Visconti family, rulers of Milan, featuring an eagle (left) and a coiled serpent (right). At bottom center is the emblem of the Olivetan Order, a reformed branch of the Benedictines founded in 1319 known as the \u201cwhite monks.\u201d The Olivetan monastery in Milan was founded in 1400 and it appears that this leaf belonged to a set of choral books presented to the monastery by one of the Visconti, perhaps about 1439\u201347. The so-called Olivetan Master takes his name from a luxuriously illustrated psalter made for the order\u2019s monastery in Milan, where he was undoubtedly a monk.",
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