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Noted Breviary (Office of the Dead) (fragment)
Title
Noted Breviary (Office of the Dead) (fragment).
Created
Southern Germany, [between 1090 and 1110]
Physical Description
ff. 1-3 : parchment ; 207 x 165mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a smaller script for the chants and a larger one for the lessons; by the same scribe who copied the psalter preserved in Beinecke MS 481.46.
Decoration: 3-line initial on f. 1v in orange that has been filled with crude, brown cross-hatching, perhaps later; 2-line initials at the beginning of lessons are in orange square capitals; 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in orange minuscules with rustic capitals; punctuated with punctus in chants and punctus and punctus elevatus within lessons; chants have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; marginal notation in a contemporary hand on 3r.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Robert G. Babcock, Lisa Fagin Davis, and Philip G. Rusche.
Provenance
Formerly used in the binding of Lambach, Stiftsbibliothek, Ccl 320.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing the Office of the Dead with lessons from Augustine, Sermon 173.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 06, 2016
References
Noted Breviary (Office of the Dead) (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Noted Breviary (Office of the Dead) (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 11th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 12th century.
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