Breviary (fragment) (UWA Collection)

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RepositoryUniversity of Western Australia Library 
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MS0043

 
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Manuscript name  
NameBreviary (fragment)  
Contents  
SummaryBreviary, 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  
SupportVellum 
Dimensions200 mm 
Extent1 folio 
Collation  
CatchwordsNo catchwords 
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Foliation  
ConditionTrimmed at top with some loss of text; stained along edges of recto. 
LayoutWritten 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  
ScriptsTextualis semi-quadrata, in two sizes. Marginal annotation in later cursive script. 
DecorationPainted initials, alternately blue and red, with filigree of opposite colour. Brown ink, rules in plummet, pricking visible.  
Musical notationNeumes (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 
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 History  
 Origin13th Century, Central or Northern France 
 Provenance  
 AcquisitionPurchase: Quaritch, cat. 1036, item 34. Presented by the Friends of the University of Western Australia Library, 1984  
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