Sacramentary (fragment).

Description

Title: Sacramentary (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1140 and 1160].
Publication Place: Southern Germany or Austria
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a sacramentary containing numerous texts, including among others: St. Sebastian (20 January); St. Agnes (21 January); St. Vincent (22 January); St. Blaise (3 February); Deposition of St. Ambrose (5 April); an unidentified feast; Mass for almsgiving; Mass for the sick; Mass against mortality; Mass in tribulation; Mass to ask for fair weather; Mass for the living and the dead
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in small late Caroline minuscule.
Decoration: initials for masses on fols. 1-3 are 2- to 5-line square capitals or uncials in red; on fols. 4-5 they are 1-line capitals in red; other 1-line initials are in red; rubrics, many rubbed and illegible, written in red minuscule; guide words for the rubricator written in brown minuscule; occasional chants have interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; punctuated with the punctus and punctus elevatus.
Provenance: A bifolium from this manuscript is now a flyleaf in the binding of Lambach, Stiftsbibliothek, Cml XXXI. Further fragments from the same manuscript are preserved as sewing supports in the binding of Burgess MS 25 in the University of Oregon Library, Eugene, Oregon. MS 25 comes from Lambach.
Extent: ff. 1-5 : 191 mm x 153 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 12th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Austria 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Sacramentaries
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Sacramentaries
Germany > 12th century
Austria > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Sacramentary (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.