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Noted Breviary (fragment)
Title
Noted Breviary (fragment).
Created
France or Italy, [between 1000 and 1010].
Physical Description
ff. 1 : parchment ; 348 x 238 mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: written in two sizes of Caroline minuscule, with a larger script for the lessons and hymn and a smaller script for the antiphons and responses.
Decoration: on fol. 1v there are decorated initials "I" (7-line) and "F" (8-line), outlined in orange and colored with green and yellow ; 1- and 2-line initials are orange uncials; 1-line initials within the hymn are a mixture of orange uncials and rustic capitals; rubrics are written in orange minuscule; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; punctuated with the punctus, punctus elevatus, and punctus interrogativus; accents and diacritical marks over double "i" by later hands.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Robert G. Babcock, Lisa Fagin Davis, and Philip G. Rusche.
Provenance
The folio was folded in half and used as the first two flyleaves in another volume; the contents of the volume are described in the inner margin of the recto in a sixteenth-century cursive hand; gift of the Yale University Library Associates; purchased from Kraus in 1948.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted breviary containing excerpts from Augustine's De sermone domini in monte, a lesson from Matthew 7, and an undetermined office for St. Apollinaris.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 27, 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 - France - 11th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 11th century.
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