Lectionary
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The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
A fine early Caroline minuscule written by a single hand. A display script with uncial titles for the Bible readings.
Original Condition
Current Condition
The two bifolia have been cut and pasted on wooded boards at the front and back of the incunabulum. The reverses remain largely inaccessible.
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There is some light staining and wear to the parchment and evidence of wood worm damage.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Four red and white penwork initial 'I's (In illo temp[ore]...) of between 4 and 7 lines high with geometric and vegetal motifs, marking the openings of new Bible readings.
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New Bible readings are announced by a display script highlighted with red ink.
Content
- Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Content Description
Two partial bifolia from a Lectionary:
front pastedown: Book of Wisdom 5:2-5; John 14:1-6; John 16:23-30; beginning of John 3:1.
rear pastedown: Matthew 10:41-42; Matthew 19:3-8; Matthew 19:9-11; John 15:17-22.
History
Host Volume
A 15th-century stamped white leather binding over wooden boards typical of the Kartause Ittingen.
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ISTC No.: in00216000
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, pp. 407-08.