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MISSAL: FERIA I - VI, AND SABBATO, DE APOSTOLIS, MARTIRIBUS, VIRGINIBUS, IN DEDICATIONE ECCLESIE, DE ST. MARIA, MARTA, SANCTO SPIRITUS, CROCE, AFRA, JOHANNE, INNOCENTIBUS, DONAT PER NATALE DOMINI, IN VIGILE EPIPHANIE DOMINI, WITH 2 ADDED OFFICES FOR ST. THOMAS OF CANTERBURY (CA. 1200 AND 14TH C.), IN DIE SANCTORUM, DONAT PER EPIPHANIA, DONAT II + III, GALLI CONFESSORES, LUCAS EVANGELISTA, IN VIGILE SYMONIS ET JUDE, IN DIE SANCTORUM, IN VIGILE OMNIS SANCTORUM, WITH ADDED OFFICES, PRAYER AND COLLECT FOR ST. BARBARA |
Description |
MS in Latin on vellum, Lambach area, Austria or Southern Germany, 1st half of 12th c., 8 ff. and flyleaf, 29x20 cm, 1 and 2 columns, (22x17 cm), 21+27 lines in Romanesque book script of medium quality, display capitals/minuscule in alternating red and black, 21 lines of St. Gallen diastematic (heightened) staffless neumes, 33 decorated 3-line initials, 1 decorated 6-line initial with leafy infill in red and mauve with green contour, 1 2-line historiated initial with face infill. |
Context |
From a grand MS that once contained about 150-200 ff., sewn in quires of eight, of which 46 leaves and 1 flyleaf survive. |