Gospel Lectionary

Description

Title: Gospel Lectionary
Published / Created: [between 1000 and 1200]
Publication Place: Switzerland (St. Luzius Cathedral, Chur)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by two hands in small late Carolingian script: hand A copied ff. 1r-59v; hand B copied ff. 61r-103r. Art. 5 has been added on a blank page by a 13th cent. hand, writing in Gothic documentary cursive script.
Decoration: red headings in larger script, in Uncialis/Capitalis or Carolingian minuscule; red 1-line versals; 2- or 3-line plain red initials.
Binding: 16th century brown leather over cardboard; both covers are blindtooled with frames of triple fillets, decorated with two rolls; spine undecorated, with label “203”.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 104 200 x 135 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Switzerland 12th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Switzerland 11th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Chur (Switzerland)
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Lectionaries
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Lectionaries
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Chur (Switzerland)
Switzerland > 12th century
Switzerland > 11th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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