| Manuscript location | ||
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| Repository | State Library of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Collection | ||
| Shelf mark | RARESF 096 R66L | |
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| Manuscript name | ||
| Name | Breviary (fragment) | |
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| Summary | Part of the Office of the Common of the Saints for Confessors and Virgins, opening abruptly at uno confessore qui non fuit episcopus: Beatus homo qui invenit [sapientiam]. (For the full text of the reading for matins of which the incipit is ‘Hesterno die qui affuistis promissionem nostram…’ see PL, XXXVIII. 573-9). | |
| Physical description | ||
| Support | Parchment | |
| Dimensions | 275 x 210 mm | |
| Extent | i (twelfth-century parchment). One folio and stub used as a fly-leaf, being fol. i in the manuscript described above under I; the 'stub' is actually the inner edge of the folio, folded over about 25 mm., so that the loose folio could be secured within the manuscript. | |
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| Condition | ||
| Layout | Light brown ink, ruling dry-point, one column now with thirty-one lines, with loss of text on one side and bottom by trimming; there are double bounding lines. | |
| Scribes | ||
| Scripts | Very early twelfth-century sub-Carolingian script of German Empire origin, contemporary interlinear neums with Sangallian characteristics. Light brown ink, ruling dry-point, one column now with thirty-one lines, with loss of text on one side and bottom by trimming; there are double bounding lines. | |
| Language | Latin | |
| Decoration | Plain orange initials. | |
| Musical notation | ||
| Binding | Bound with Liber Obsequialis. | |
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| History | ||
| Origin | Germany, early twelfth century | |
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