In the absence of a title page, the text may be recognized, referred to, and recorded by its incipit. |
Unfortunately, Matthew's incipit page is severely worn, appearing to have functioned as the manuscript's front cover for a number of years. |
The rest of the incipit words are written in gold leaf on a coloured background. |
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, incipit Vita Nova. |
Thus, you'll find here not only the beginning of a piece, i.e. the incipit, but also secondary themes and motifs, and often several of them in a single movement. |
Columbus has been fighting a major bedbug infestation for years, and enacted a bedbug oversight committee to marshal forces to fight this incipit outbreak. |