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Noted Breviary (fragment)
Title
Noted Breviary (fragment).
Created
Southern Germany or Austria, [11--]
Physical Description
ff. 1-2 : parchment ; 205 x 143 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule with a smaller script for chants and a larger script for lessons.
Decoration: 1-line initials at beginning of lessons and of lauds are in orange square capitals or uncials; other 1-line initials are in brown rustic capitals with enlarged minuscule "e" are occasionally highlighted in orange; initials of responses ornamented with orange dots; rubrics written in orange capitals; punctuated with punctus in chants and punctus, punctus versus, and punctus interrogativus in lessons; antiphons and responses contain interlinear neumes in St. Gall style.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Robert G. Babcock, Lisa Fagin Davis, and Philip G. Rusche.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing: Epiphany (6 January) with lessons from Bede and Paul the Deacon's Homilary; Purification of Mary (2 February) with lessons from Pseudo-Augustine, Sermon 370.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 07, 2016
References
Noted Breviary (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Noted Breviary (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Germany - 12th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Austria - 12th century.
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