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Middle High German pericope book

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Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Fragm. 65 a-e

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2024 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Middle High German pericope book
Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Fragm. 65 a-e
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Midwestern Germany
Date of Origin second quarter 14th century
Script, Hands

Northern gothica textualis currens, in two different sizes and in several hands.

Original Condition

Page Height at least 35 mm
Page Width 109 – 111 mm
Height of Written Area at least 22 mm
Width of Written Area 75 – 80 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 75 – 80 mm
Number of Lines at least 14
Ruling No longer visible.

Current Condition

Extent 5 strips
Dimensions 35 x 111 mm
More about the Current Condition
5 horizontal strips, ranging in size between 30-35 x 82-111 mm.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red plain initials, red rubrication, red colour stroking.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Middle High German (Central Franconian, possibly Ripuarian); Latin (for the headings)
    • Title Middle High German pericope book
    • Content Description

      Pericopes with liturgical readings, for several different feast days (fragment A verso: readings for an unspecified Monday ('des maindagis'), fragment B recto: readings for the third Sunday of Lent ('der dritte sundach'). Fragment C verso mentions the 'secreta' in its rubric.

      Fragments C en D recto contain a translation of John 8:53-59.

    • Fragm. 65 a, fol. [1]r
    • Edition In't Velt, Roos, 'Fragmente eines mittelhochdeutschen Perikopenbuchs in Antwerpen', Maniculae 5 (2024), p. 45

Host Volume

Title Martialis, Epigrammatum libri XIIII, with commentary by Jakob Micyllus
Date of Origin/Publication 1536
Place of Origin/Publication Basel
Shelfmark Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, C 1365 [C2-532 g]
Persons Johann I Herwagen (printer of host volume)
Remarks

Fragments were used as spine lining in Martialis, Epigrammatum libri XIIII, with commentary by Jakob Micyllus, printed by Johann I Herwagen in Basel in 1536.

Fragments were removed at an unknown point in time.

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