| Manuscript location | ||
|---|---|---|
| Place | ||
| Repository | University of Western Australia Library | |
| Collection | ||
| Shelf mark | MS0043 | |
| Former shelf mark | ||
| Manuscript name | ||
| Name | Breviary (fragment) | |
| Contents | ||
| Summary | Breviary, noted, Temporal, including portions of the Offices for Ascension Day, for Friday after, for the whole of the following week, and for the Sunday after Ascension. | |
| Physical description | ||
| Support | Vellum | |
| Dimensions | 200 mm | |
| Extent | 1 folio | |
| Collation | ||
| Catchwords | No catchwords | |
| Signatures | ||
| Foliation | ||
| Condition | Trimmed at top with some loss of text; stained along edges of recto. | |
| Layout | Written space 170 x 120 mm, double columns with at least 40 . Two columns, first column with 30 lines of text, second column with 36 lines of text. Rules in plummet, pricking visible. | |
| Scribes | ||
| ScriptsSmall | Gothic script of two sizesTextualis semi-quadrata, in two sizes. Marginal annotation in later cursive script. | |
| Decoration | Painted initials, alternately blue and red, with filigree of opposite colour. Brown ink, rules in plummet, pricking visible. | |
| Musical notation | Neumes (petits-carrea-lies) on stave of red lines - mostly 4 red lines (, sometimes 2 or 3); F, C and b clefs; each stave and its text taking 2-text lines | |
| Binding | ||
| Seals | ||
| Accompanying material | ||
| History | ||
| Origin | 13th Century, Central or Northern France | |
| Provenance | ||
| Acquisition | Purchase: Quaritch, cat. 1036, item 34. Presented by the Friends of the University of Western Australia Library, 1984 | |
| Bibliography | ||
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