Gallican sacramentary

Description

Title: Gallican sacramentary
Published / Created: [between 700 and 750]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on portions of 2 parchment bifolios. Removed from a binding where it functioned as the pastedowns and the first and last flyleaves
Description: In Latin.
Script: Arts. 1-4, 8-15 written in uncial; arts. 5-7 in a pre-Caroline minuscule with prominent ascenders.
Pen-drawn initials, touched with red, yellow, green, and/or orange occur for each art.; some incorporate a sawtooth pattern and fish motif. Heading for art. 8 in majuscules for first line (filled with yellow, red, green) and red uncials for second; remainder of headings in red uncials.
Leaves damaged by pasting, cutting, and folding.
Boxed.
Provenance: Acquired from H. P. Kraus in 1965 by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
Extent: ff. 4 : ca. 262 x 215 (215 x 165) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 342
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Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 8th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Sacramentaries
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sacramentaries
France > 8th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Gallican Sacramentary. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.