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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 579

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 Sacramentary
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 579
Page/Folio Reference Pastedowns
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 11th century
Script, Hands

A late Caroline minuscule, showing transitional features. 
General Remarks

Marginalia in a later hand. 

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 32
Line Height 7 mm
Ruling drypoint

Current Condition

Extent 2 halves of a single leaf
Dimensions 138 x 200 mm (front pastedown); 137 x 199 mm (back pastedown)
More about the Current Condition

A single large leaf has been detached and cut in two to form a pastedown at the front and back of the host volume. 

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The front board contains the upper part of the leaf, the back the lower. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Two-, three-, and four-line penwork initials in red. 

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Rubrics in red. 
  • Musical Notation

    Staffless neumes above text. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Sacramentary
      • front pastedown

    History

    Persons and Institutions The host volume belonged to the nearby Kartause Ittingen outside of Frauenfeld, Switzerland.

    Host Volume

    Title Peregrinus Oppoliensis, Sermones de tempore et de sanctis
    Date of Origin/Publication 4 September 1495
    Place of Origin/Publication Strasbourg
    Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 579
    Persons Johann Reinhard Grüninger
    Remarks

    15th-/16th-century light leather binding over wooden boards, typical of the Kartause Ittingen. 

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    ISTC No.: ip00269000

    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. 426. 

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