Missal

Mass for the Holy Trinity (fol. [1])

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Antwerpen, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Verzameling Losse Aanwinsten, nr. 15.18

Remarks by the Editor

Additional remarks by Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023.

General Information

Title Missal
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Verzameling Losse Aanwinsten, nr. 15.18
Former Shelfmarks nr. 7
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 15th century
Script, Hands

Main text in northern gothica textualis formata, in two different sizes.

Original Condition

Page Height 315 mm
Page Width at least 227 mm
Height of Written Area 215 – 220 mm
Width of Written Area 155 mm
Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 70 mm
Number of Lines 26
Line Height 8 – 9 mm
Ruling full ink ruling, prickings in inner margin

Current Condition

Extent 1 bifolium (fol. [2] trimmed)
Dimensions 315 x 227 mm (fol. [1]); 315 x 105 mm (fol. [2])
More about the Current Condition

The fragment consists of one loose bifolium. Fol. [1] is more or less intact. Fol. [2] is cut in half vertically, so that one of the two columns has been removed completely.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Pen-flourished parted initials with interior reserved shapes (pen-flourishes in red, body of the initial in red/blue), plain initials (red, blue), rubrics (red), versals (red, blue), colour stroking (red), paraphs (red, blue).

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Missal
    • Content Description
      • Fol. [1]: Mass for the Holy Trinity, containing a Collect, a reading (Romans 11: 33-36), a responsory, a reading from John 15: 26-27) and a Secret.
      • Fol. [2]: Mass, containing a Collect and a reading (Leviticus 26: 3-5).
    • fol. [1]r

Host Volume

Remarks

The fragment functioned as a wrapper of a 17th-century account book according to the Duth inscription on fol. [1]v: "Adriaen Mertens 1619".