Ceremonial

F-86qu

Antwerpen, FelixArchief, 2201 # 24

Remarks by the Editor

Additonal notes by Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023.

General Information

Title Ceremonial
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, FelixArchief, 2201 # 24
Material Parchment
Place of Origin England
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis formata.

General Remarks

Fragments are a remnant of the same manuscript as Antwerpen, FelixArchief, 2201 # 38 (F-i726 on Fragmentarium).

Original Condition

Page Height at least 257 mm
Page Width 230 mm
Height of Written Area 253 – 257 mm
Width of Written Area 165 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 73 – 76 mm
Number of Lines at least 32
Line Height 7 – 8 mm
Ruling Full ink ruling

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium (trimmed)
Dimensions 258 x 403 mm
More about the Current Condition

Upper margin of both leaves, as well as the outer margin of fol. [2], have been trimmed away, resulting in text loss.

At one point, parchment strips were stuck to the margin in both sides.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Blue plain pen-flourished initials and versals with penwork in red, with marginal extensions as well as interior reserved shapes. Penwork has both anthropomorphic and foliate characteristics.

Blue paraphs, red rubrication, yellow colour stroking.

Guide letters between the text present guide lines for small flourishes not marked with ink.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Ceremonial
    • Content Description
      • fol. [1]r-v: Sequentia, reading from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2: 1-10, 11-14), Secretum, Praefatio, Postcommunio.
      • Missa de mane officium (fol. [1]v): Oratio, reading from Isaiah (Isaiah 61: 1-3)
      • Fol. [2]r: Reading from the Gospel of Luke (Luke 1: 44-47), Secretum, Communio, Postcommunio.
    • fol. [2]v-[1]r

Host Volume

Title Register of the assizes of beer in the city of Antwerp, for August - October 1573
Date of Origin/Publication 1 August 1573 - 31 October 1573
Place of Origin/Publication Antwerp
Shelfmark Antwerpen, FelixArchief, T # 1492 ('1573-4')
Persons Johannes Maechs (supervisor of the beer assizes at Antwerp, scribe/keep of host volume); A. Colenaer (possibly steward-general of the city of Antwerp and overseer of the beer assizes)
Remarks

Fragments was used as upper flyleaf for a register of the assizes of beer in the city of Antwerp kept between 1 August 1573 and 31 October 1573 ('Assijs boeck vanden darder quartier vande binnen ende buijten bieren / opt assijse aen bier heeft beginnende prima augusti anno 73 / ende eijndende vltima octoberij daer nae volgende'). Offset of the rubrics is still visible on the first leaf of the volume.

A paper label with the inscription '1573-4' is attached to the bifolium with string, referring to this origin.