Identifier:

2/XII/GER/1.

Scope and content:

r-v: // Secundum Matheum. In illo tempore. Angelus domini apparuit in somnis . . . supra serpentes et scorpiones et supra om// [sanctorale. from the Feast of the Innocents, 28 December, to the Feast of Felix, 14 January].

Acquisition information:

Written in northern Germany, to judge from the parchment, script, and spelling. A fairly reliable terminus ante quern, 1170, is the added reference to St. Thomas of Canterbury. The conditions of preservation and “96” in pencil (s. XIX-XX) on the upper right-hand corner of the recto suggest that the leaf was part of a codex until the present century. Purchased from Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles; book-dealer's note in pencil: “1170. Spain. Missal. Revived Carolingian script.”

Physical description:

Parchment, 1 leaf; 347 × 240 (243 × 170) mm. 24 long lines; ruling in lead; pricking in the inner, upper, and lower margins. Spiky, upright, rather compressed gothic bookhand in liturgical style (littera textualis format a), in two sizes. 2-line and 3/4-line initials in red capitals; initials in the text slashed with red; rubrics in red in the same script as the text; instructions to the rubricator in the inner margin. Almost contemporary marginalia by a German current gothic bookhand, on the recto “Thomae episcopi et martiris . . .”, on the verso “Genofeve virginis . . . Wilhelmi episcopi . . .”.

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