Breviary (fragment) (UWA Collection)

Breviary (fragment) (UWA Collection)

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. Two columns, first column with 30 lines of text, second column with 36 lines of text. Rules in plummet, pricking visible. 

 

Scribes

 

 

Scripts

Textualis 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 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 

 

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