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Missal or Processional (Lent)

First Sunday in Lent and Monday after First Sunday in Lent

F-3z73

Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum, Private Collection, Canada, Fr.G1-6

Private Catalogue, Canada, 2024. (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Missal or Processional (Lent)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Germany [?]

Current Condition

Dimensions 166 x 225 mm
More about the Current Condition

The bifolium was recovered from a binding. There is fading and soiling on both sides. On the recto are two paper labels, which would have been visible on the spine of the host volume. One label, possibly dating to the 18th century, bears the host volume title (Runceus: cros. dialect.). The other label, dating to the 19th or early-20th century, bears a location or call number (XXI 66). The verso, which was previously pasted down, contains remnants of paper and glue that partially obscure some of the text.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

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 Rubrication is penned in red ink.

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      The bifolium contains text used during Lent (Quadragesima). The left-side recto begins with an antiphon (Vigilate omnes et orate) and continues with another (sive) that is largely illegible, but may be Media vita in morte sumus. This side then contains a rubric: Iste ordo processionis teneatur usque dominicam in palmam exceptis responsoriis que assumuntur de hystoriis singularum dominicam (This order of the procession must be kept through to Palm Sunday, except the responsories which are assumed for the histories of individual Sundays). The rubric is followed by a set of propers for the first Sunday in Lent (Dominica I in Quadragesima), several of which are derived from Psalm 90, including the introit (Invocavit me), gradual (Angelis suis), and tract (Qui habitat). On the right-side recto are parts of 2 Corinthians 6, likewise for use on the first Sunday in Lent. The left-side verso contains an antiphon (Pacem tuam quaesumus domine). On the right-side verso is Matthew 25: 31-33, intended for use on the Monday after the first Sunday in Lent (Feria II post Dominica I in Quadragesima).

      There are several marginal notations in different hands on both sides. Notably, on the bottom of the left-side verso, partially obscured by the turn-ins, is what appears to be a Hellenized name ([Georgius?] Backmeysteriades). On the bottom of the right-side verso, there are also three lines of Greek, referencing Homer and the Iliad (ΟΜΗΡΟΣ ΙΛΙΑΔΟΣ [Β?] ΡΑΨΩΔΙΑς).

History

Origin

The seller dated the bifolium to the fifteenth century and listed its origins as German. While the bifolium was listed as a missal fragment by the seller, it is possible that it was part of a processional due to its smaller size.

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