Tonary

F-f50v

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 715/04

Remarks by the Editor

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

General Information

Title Tonary
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 715/04
Page/Folio Reference front pastedown
Material Parchment
Script, Hands

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

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 19
Line Height 9 – 10 mm
Ruling drypoint

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial leaf
Dimensions 189 x 125 mm
More about the Current Condition

A single leaf has been detached, trimmed as repurposed as a pastedown (now lifted) at the front of the host volume. 

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The side of the leaf once stuck down to the wooden board is extensively stained. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One-line penwork initials in black and orange. 

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Rubrics in red. 

  • Musical Notation

    Staffless neumes above text. 

  • Content

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

        Note: the differentia Seculorum amen; the title of the mode, Plagis deuteri noeagis; and the antiphon Quarta vigilia venit ad eos. 

    Host Volume

    Title Pseudo Sanctus Methodius, Revelationes divinae a sanctis angelis factae
    Date of Origin/Publication 1 September 1496
    Place of Origin/Publication Augsburg
    Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 715/04
    Persons Johann Froschauer
    Remarks

    15th-/16th-century blind-stamped light half-length leather binding over wooden boards. Restored in the 20th century. 

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    A leaf from a lectionary was repurposed as a pastedown (now lifted) at the front of the volume: Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 715/04, back pastedown

    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. 374. 

    Other available descriptions