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Noted Breviary

Feast of St Stephen

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 282

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 Noted Breviary (?)
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 282
Page/Folio Reference flyleaves
Material Parchment
Date of Origin first half, 12th century
Script, Hands

A square proto-Gothic script written in a single hand. 

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 28
Line Height 9 – 10 mm
Ruling not visible
More about the Condition

Marginalia. 

Current Condition

Extent 2 partial leaves
Dimensions 279 x 198 mm
More about the Current Condition

Two leaves trimmed and repurposed as flyleaves or perhaps pastedowns (now lifted) in the host volume. 

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The Latin motto "Fronti nulla fides" and a signature are appear upside down at the bottom of the leaf at the front of the volume. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One- and 2-line penwork initials in red and black. 

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Rubrics in red. 

  • Musical Notation

    Staffless neumes above text. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Brevarium
      • Content Description

        Contains texts and chants for the feast of St Stephen Protomartyr (26 December). 

    Host Volume

    Title Werner Rolevinck, Fasciculus temporum
    Date of Origin/Publication 1482
    Place of Origin/Publication Memmingen
    Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 282
    Persons Albrecht Kunne
    Remarks

    16th-century light stamped leather binding over wooden boards. Cover with the Latin motto "Fronti nulla fides" and the date 1552.

    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. 507.

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