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Missal and lectionary
Title
Missal and lectionary.
Created
Italy, approximately 1450.
Physical Description
1 volume (i + 389 + i) : parchment ; 115 mm x 75 mm
Language
Latin
Notes
Layout: double columns of 29-33 lines.
Script: small gothic bookhand.
Decoration: rubricated. Pen-flourished initials in red and blue. Numerous other initials cut out; 56 historiated initials in colored grisaille and gold partly or completely remaining.
Binding: modern light brown morocco; modern marbled endpapers. Spine title in gilt: Book of Hours.
Modern annotations in pencil on verso of front flyleaf.
Incomplete: losses throughout; first 20 and final 2 leaves badly damaged and stained.
Bookseller description available.
Title devised by cataloger.
In Latin.
Provenance
From the library of James Stevens-Cox (number 47). Purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd. on the Herman W. Liebert Fund, 2013.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment in a single scribal hand containing an incomplete missal and lectionary, apparently Use of Rome. The calendar includes the feast of Saint Hugh of Lincoln, "monaci nostri ordinis."
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2022
References
Missal and Lectionary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Missal and Lectionary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - Italy - 15th centry.
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