Noted Breviary (fragment).

Description

Title: Noted Breviary (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1150 and 1199]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing Sts. Peter and Paul (29 June).
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in two sizes of late Carolina/early Gothic script.
Decoration: two 3-line initials are in red uncials; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals occasionally highlighted with red; rubrics are written in red capitals; punctuated with punctus for chants, and the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus for the lessons; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; accents in the same ink as the text.
Provenance: This fragment was used as a pastedown in the binding of another volume; a fourteenth-century (?) hand has written "Cro sla werra guerra idem est" on the left-hand margin of fol. 1r; a sixteenth-century hand has written the name "Theodoricus Algesheim" in the upper margin of the same folio.
Extent: ff. 1 : 316 x 214 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Breviaries
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Breviaries
Germany > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Noted Breviary (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.