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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 71

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 Benedictio cereorum
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 71
Page/Folio Reference Pastedowns
Material Parchment
Place of Origin German speaking area
Date of Origin last quarter, 13th century
Script, Hands

An early Northern Gothic Textualis written in a single hand. 
General Remarks

Below top line.

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 21
Line Height 7 – 8 mm
Ruling in ink

Current Condition

Extent 2 partial leaves
Dimensions 215 x 67 mm (front pastedown); and 216 x 66 mm (back pastedown)
More about the Current Condition

Two partial leaves repurposed as pastedowns at the front and back of the host volume that may also function as spine liners. Sections of the dorse of the fragments are visible in places, where the fragments have come unstuck. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One- and two-line penwork initials in red. 
  • Musical Notation

    Neumes on four-line brown staves. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Benedictio cereorum
      • Content Description

        Includes texts and chants for the Purification of the Virgin ('Quod chorus...') and the blessing of the wax ('Hec deus...'). 
      • front pastedown

    History

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

    Host Volume

    Title Aurelius Augustinus, Opuscula
    Date of Origin/Publication 23 July 1484
    Place of Origin/Publication Venice
    Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 71
    Persons Andreas de Bonetis
    Remarks

    16th-century light-coloured half-leather binding over wooden boards. 

    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. 31. 

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