Pontifical

Description

Title: Pontifical
Published / Created: [ca. 950]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on two fragments of a single parchment leaf, now crudely patched together in their original format. Contains lines of text from a Prayer "ad clericum faciendum"; Antiphon and Psalm; Part of an "ordinatio monachi"; and Prayer "ad barbas tonendas". The manuscript presumably originated in one of the episcopal seats of the period and perhaps in one of the monastic cathedrals
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in a fine, large Anglo-Saxon square minuscule with headings, in red square capitals (mostly faded).
Removed from a binding; numerous sections spotted and discolored.
Provenance: Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1965 by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
Extent: ff. 2 : 179 x 131 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Medieval England 10th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): England.
Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Cathedrals
Manuscripts, Medieval
Pontificals
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions
Cathedrals > England
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Pontificals
England > 10th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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