Breviary (fragment) (UWA Collection)
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Repository | University of Western Australia Library |
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Shelf mark | MS0043 |
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Name | Breviary (fragment) |
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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. |
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Support | Vellum |
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Dimensions | 200 mm |
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Extent | 1 folio |
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Catchwords | No catchwords |
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Condition | Trimmed at top with some loss of text; stained along edges of recto. |
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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. |
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Scripts | Textualis semi-quadrata, in two sizes. Marginal annotation in later cursive script. |
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Decoration | Painted initials, alternately blue and red, with filigree of opposite colour. Brown ink, rules in plummet, pricking visible. |
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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 |
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History |
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Origin | 13th Century, Central or Northern France |
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Acquisition | Purchase: Quaritch, cat. 1036, item 34. Presented by the Friends of the University of Western Australia Library, 1984 |
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