<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<item xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" itemId="17170" public="1" featured="0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://digital.buffalolib.org/document/17170?output=omeka-xml" accessDate="2026-05-30T15:39:28+00:00">
  <fileContainer>
    <file fileId="37397">
      <src>https://digital.buffalolib.org/files/original/c33217669f25f6988c00c3dd90523d3c.jpg</src>
      <authentication>f52f8c4478bda8aa5a9ad8800948f5d3</authentication>
    </file>
    <file fileId="37398">
      <src>https://digital.buffalolib.org/files/original/c2c13feed9df56992958bb7be06a3e69.jpg</src>
      <authentication>87c310f372c1990a16b8a8d145d93c1e</authentication>
    </file>
  </fileContainer>
  <collection collectionId="32">
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="193895">
                <text>Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="193896">
                <text>Manuscripts from the early medieval period to the beginning of the Renaissance. </text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </collection>
  <itemType itemTypeId="1">
    <name>Text</name>
    <description>A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.</description>
  </itemType>
  <elementSetContainer>
    <elementSet elementSetId="1">
      <name>Dublin Core</name>
      <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="50">
          <name>Title</name>
          <description>A name given to the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194343">
              <text>[Initial C from a medieval choirbook]</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="41">
          <name>Description</name>
          <description>An account of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194344">
              <text>The letter D illuminated with colors and gilt, within a frame; excised from large format choirbook.</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="194345">
              <text>1 fragment; written in a formal gothic book hand; square black notation on 5-line red staves.  The initial (here taken as a letter C), set within a narrow frame in dark brown with 2 gold rules around all sides, formed of an elaborate lavender scroll, shaded with dark blue, and decorated on the cusp of its far left scroll with green and yellow acanthus leaves attached by a knob of the same color; these colors also used for the scroll that closes the 2 front lines of the C; the whole against a dark blue-gray ground that is embellished in the center with a scrolled design of painted gold leaves and flowers; more of the same leaves and flowers are attached to outside parts of the letter.</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="194346">
              <text>Written in Spain, possibly during the 16th century.  Belonged to Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) who was a professor of music theory and history at the New England Conservatory of Music from age 34 onwards; he had begun studying music with his mother, then went on to study in Leipzig; he composed songs, operetta and works for the piano, but mainly he studied and wrote on the history of music; he published in a number of Boston newspapers, and was the editor-in-chief of Modern Music and Musicians (1912; 20 vols.) and of the University Musical Encyclopedia (1912-14; 10 vols.), among the ca. 50 items that he published over the course of his life.  The collection of medieval fragments of music that had belonged to Louis Charles Elson was acquired in 1924 by the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo NY; this library, together with the Erie County Public Library and the Buffalo Public Library merged in 1953 to form today's Buffalo and Erie County Public Library.  In the lower margin of side of the fragment treated as the recto, "BECPL."  On a small oval label now affixed upside down on the fragment, "No. 25, Elson Collection."</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="194347">
              <text>Title from De Ricci.</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="194348">
              <text>Bibliography: De Ricci. Census, p. 1211, no. 18</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="37">
          <name>Contributor</name>
          <description>An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194349">
              <text>Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="194350">
              <text>Rare Book Room of B&amp;ECPL (repository)</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="40">
          <name>Date</name>
          <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194351">
              <text>[16th century]</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>Date Created</name>
          <description>Date of creation of the resource.</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194352">
              <text>2023-12-21</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="49">
          <name>Subject</name>
          <description>The topic of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194353">
              <text>Illumination of books and manuscripts</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="194354">
              <text>Manuscripts--New York (State)--Buffalo</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="71">
          <name>Is Part Of</name>
          <description>A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194355">
              <text>Louis C. Elson Collection. no. 25</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="47">
          <name>Rights</name>
          <description>Information about rights held in and over the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194356">
              <text>Digital image copyright 2023 by the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo &amp; Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="51">
          <name>Type</name>
          <description>The nature or genre of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194357">
              <text>Text</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="42">
          <name>Format</name>
          <description>The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194358">
              <text>image/jpg</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="79">
          <name>Extent</name>
          <description>The size or duration of the resource.</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194359">
              <text>fragment of 1 leaf ; 21.5 x 17 cm</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="80">
          <name>Medium</name>
          <description>The material or physical carrier of the resource.</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194360">
              <text>parchment (animal material)</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="44">
          <name>Language</name>
          <description>A language of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194361">
              <text>lat</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="43">
          <name>Identifier</name>
          <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194362">
              <text>RBR MSS. I55 1500</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="82">
          <name>Spatial Coverage</name>
          <description>Spatial characteristics of the resource.</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="194363">
              <text>[Spain]</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </elementSet>
  </elementSetContainer>
  <tagContainer>
    <tag tagId="4">
      <name>Rare Books</name>
    </tag>
  </tagContainer>
</item>
