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Missal

Feria VI in Parsceve

F-53p1

Chicago, University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Codex Ms 686

Guide to the Wandel Collection of Manuscript Fragments (Ms 686), Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)

General Information

Title Missal
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Italy
Date of Origin s. xii1
Script, Hands

Carolingian minuscule. Uncial rubrics

Original Condition

Height of Written Area 285 mm
Width of Written Area 175 mm
Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines 33
Ruling Dry-point; single bounding lines enclose each column

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 385 x 275 mm
More about the Current Condition

Folds along middle and lower edge show that the leaf was used as a wrapper (folded size 217 x 15 mm), with verso serving as the outside (showing glue once used to paste brown paper over membrane). Small, neat script in the space at line 20 reads "In Praefationem in Plinis Hist. Nat."; same hand visible along outer edge of column 1.

Bibliography

  • The Latin manuscript book; an exhibition held on the occasion of the seminars in Latin palaeography sponsored by the Division of the Humanities of the University of Chicago and the Medieval Academy of America, summer MCMLXXIII, selected from the collections of the University of Chicago Library. The Joseph Regenstein Library, July through September, 1973. [Chicago], [1973]. Item 50.

     https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/ex-latin-book.pdf
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