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Epistolary
Title
Epistolary.
Created
Germany (?), [between 1450 and 1500]
Physical Description
f. 1 : parchment ; 330 x 250 (245 x 175) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Written in bold, well spaced, and slightly rounded gothic bookhand.
Red hufnagel neumes scattered over the text for the subdeacon who reads the Epistle at Mass. On recto, space of 12 lines (140 mm.) left blank between arts. 1 and 2, perhaps for a miniature. 5-line initial in red, ending in pen and ink flourishes. On verso, illuminated initial C, 11-line, of poor quality, on brownish-red ground within rectangular frame of bright orange, green, and blue. Initial in white with bands of gold and silver; two gold-bordered medallions with white-blue centers, resembling jewels or mirrors. Initial encloses full-length figure of St. Andrew holding cross of his martyrdom. Text initials touched with red.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Gift of Millicent Todd Bingham in 1969 to Yale University; removed from the collection of Historical Manuscripts of the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale Univeristy in 1970 and transferred to the Beinecke Library.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript fragment on one leaf of parchment (soft, furry; trimmed) of 1) Apoc. 21.4-5: Epistle for last Sunday after Pentecost (?). 2) Beginning of Proper of the Saints, with Epistle for St. Andrew (30 Nov.); Rom. 10.10-15.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
February 28, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 476.
Epistolary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Epistolary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 15th century.
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