Missal (fragment)

Missal (fragment)

Manuscript location

 

 

Place

 

 

Repository

University of Western Australia Library

 

Collection

 

 

Shelf mark

MS0044

 

Former shelf mark

 

 

Manuscript name

 

 

Name

Missal (fragment)

 

Contents

 

 

Summary

Contains text of most of the Proper of the Mass for St. Thomas Becket and part of that for the Feast of the Holy Innocents 

 

Physical description

 

 

Support

Vellum

 

Dimensions

344 x 251 mm in frame.

 

Extent

1 folio

 

Collation

 

 

Catchwords

 

 

Signatures

 

 

Foliation

 

 

Condition

Horizontal crease through centre of verso which has caused darkening, wear of text and a number of small holes. Several initials are also worn.

 

Layout

Written space 260 x 170 mm, two columns of 32 lines. First column 260 x 75 mm, second column 260 x 70 mm.

 

Scribes

 

 

Scripts

Late textualis semi-quadrata hand. Several lines in slightly smaller textualis throughout.

 

Decoration

Initials (2 lines tall) alternately in red and blue, with contrasting penwork in black and red respectively. Brown ink, ruled with pink ink.

 

Musical notation

 

 

Binding

 

 

Seals

 

 

Accompanying material

 

 

 History

 

 

 Origin

England, beginning of fifteenth century.

 

 Provenance

 

 

 Acquisition

Purchase: Quaritch, cat. 1036, item 22. Presented by the Friends of the University of Western Australia Library, 1984 

 

 Bibliography

 

 

 Bibliography list

 

 

 Analysis

 

 

 Commentary

 

 

 Description by

 

 

 Acknowledgements

 

 

 Other descriptions

 

 

 Digital copies