Breviary (fragment)

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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)
Contents
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.
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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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