Sacramentary
F-24l3

The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
We are grateful to Laura Glöckler for her help identifying the fragment.
General Information
A Northern Gothic Textualis written in a single hand.
Original Condition
The side of the leaf 'comb fragment front' is the true recto.
Current Condition
Four fragments from the same parent manuscript used to reinforce the spine of the host volume, from which they are now detached.
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The larger piece has been fashioned into a comb fragment that was once pasted onto the front board. Traces of the dark brown leather binding are visible on the front of the four fingers of the comb fragment that would have surrounded the sewing stations of the host volume.
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The three other squares of parchment appear to have been inserted into the spine for further strengthening.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
One-line and three-line penwork initials in red.
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Rubrics in red.
Content
History
Host Volume
Two volumes are listed under the X 787 shelfmark in the catalogue listed below: Johannes Melber, Vocabularius praedicantium, sive Variloquus, 1488; and Vocabularius incipiens teutonicum ante latinum, c. 1495. It is not clear which volume the fragment originated from.
Bibliography
On the host volume:
Luginbühl, Marianne and Heinz Bothien. Meisterwerke des Frühen Buchdrucks: Die Inkunabel-Schätze der Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau aus den Klöstern von Ittingen, Fischingen und Kreuzlingen. Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber, 2011, p. 372 or p. 610.