Missal
Beginning of Easter Sunday
F-7ze5

The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
A Northern Gothic Textualis written by a single hand.
Original Condition
A large-format missal.
Current Condition
The single large leaf has been cut, folded and repurposed to form a binding cover over cardboard boards. An additional fragment, with only the traces of ruling in ink and of blue and red decoration, has been pasted transversally at the bottom of the back cover, to fill the area not covered by the leaf.
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The words 'De Dominicis' have been added to the top left of the front cover in a much later hand.
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Two leather ties (now missing) were added, as were a text title and collection lables to to the spine.
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There is wear and staining to the parchment, particularly on the spine, where the text is now largely unreadable.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
A single enormous 14-line penwork initial 'R'(esurrexi) in red and blue ink with filled with intricate ornamental and geometric motifs.
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Rubrics in red.
Content
- Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Missale Romanum
- Content Description
A single leaf with the opening of the Introit at Mass on Easter Sunday, "Resurrexi et ad-/-huc tecum sum / alleluia posuisti..."; followed by Psalm 138 (139):1-3(?), "Do-/-mine probasti me / et cognovisti me..."; a collect (unreadable); a reading from Corinthians (unreadable); and the gradual, "Hec dies quam fecit do[mine]...", which concludes the leaf's texts.
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The reverse of the leaf is not visible.