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Missal

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 275

Fergus Bovill, 2025 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. 

General Information

Title Missal
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 275
Page/Folio Reference Flange
Material Parchment
Place of Origin German speaking area
Date of Origin last quarter, 10th century to first quarter, 11th century
Script, Hands

A late Caroline minuscule written in a single hand. 

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 29
Line Height 7 mm
Ruling drypoint

Current Condition

Extent 2 parts of the same leaf
Dimensions 270 x 42 mm
More about the Current Condition

Two segments of the same leaf repurposed as what appears to be an endleaf guard in the host volume. 

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The text and rubrics are faded in places. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One three-line penwork initial in orange. One ornamental four-line penwork initial in dark brown. 

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Rubrics in red (now heavily faded). 
  • Musical Notation

    Staffless neumes above text. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Missal
      • front fragment dorse

    History

    Persons and Institutions The host volume belonged to the nearby Kartause Ittingen outside of Frauenfeld, Switzerland.

    Host Volume

    Title Nikolaus Stör, Expositio officii missae sacrique canonis
    Date of Origin/Publication c. 1481
    Place of Origin/Publication Reutlingen
    Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 275
    Persons Johann Otmar
    Remarks

    15th-/16th-century light-coloured leather binding over wooden boards, typical of the Kartause Ittingen. 

    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. 541. 
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