Collectarium
F-lham
General Information
Original Condition
Current Condition
This leaf has minor food staining and dirt in the margins on both sides. The most pronounced food staining is near the foredge on the recto while the dirt is along the spine and fore-edges, plus, on the recto, along the bottom edge.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Fragment: The size of this leaf is 95 x 65 mm. On both sides, there is a pen-flourished, three-sided (demi-vinet) border. This border, along the left, smaller margin, is a continuous line splitting into two vine-like curls within both the upper and lower margins. Gilt, three-pointed leaves serve as caps on the ends of the two split lines, and a single gilt teardrop-shape sits in both forks where the border splits. The left split extends 5mm from the fork, while the right split extends 25mm. The ink pigment is blue, with an extremely fine white line of ink drawn on afterwards, atop the blue, down the middle of the border. This serves as a highlight. The width of the text block varies between 45 and 47 mm, and the height is 70 mm. The guidelines on the top and bottom of the text block extend all the way to the edges of the page, while the guidelines in between the text only extend slightly further than the sentences. The very edges of this bifolium feature a slight halo, suggesting gilt from a book that was A.E.G. (All Edges Gilt). (Note: In determining the recto and verso sides of this fragment, we have used clues such as the continuation of a sentence from one side to the next, the size of the margins, and uneven cut on the internal edge of the fragment where it had been separated from the bifolium.)
Recto: Within the written text, there are two examples of rubrics. There also appears two lombardic capital initials, "P," and "C,” in red and blue ink respectively, with white ink detailing. Both initials are mostly contained within gilt square backgrounds, taking up roughly two lines of text in height. Each initial features one very fine fleur-de-lis positioned inside the open, rounded spaces in the letters. These fleurs-de-lis are pigmented in the opposite color to that of the letter they are contained in, for the sake of contrast. A blue fleur-de-lis within the red “P,” and a red fleur-de-lis within the blue “C.” The “P” extends past its gilt backdrop and connects on the edges to the border.
Verso: There is only one rubric featured in the text on this side. There are five examples of lombardic capital initials, all on the letter “A” in the word “ave.” One letter, starting at the second line of text, is significantly larger than the other four, and is the only one not written in gilt. Instead, it is written in blue ink and is connected to the border. It is contained in a gilt square background, in a similar way to the initials on the recto. The remaining four decorated initials are gilt with a black border surrounded by an additional red or blue border with white lines. The space within the “A,” under the line of the letter and between the legs, are the opposite color (red border, blue interior). The last “A” on the verso is missing its vertical black line completely, and two short white lines take its place.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
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Content Description
Prayers used in the fourth and fifth parts of Mass on the recto of the leaf. Line 1-5 are found in the Missale Lyon but not the Missale Romanum, while lines 6-14 are, and come from the 4th part of the Mass following the Consecration. Lines 15-20 are from the Missale Romanum, but the fifth part of the Mass and directly follow the first prayer as found in contemporary Missale Romanum.
On the verso, Line 1 concludes the prayer from the recto. Lines 2-20 are "Ave Domine Jesu Christi" motets of praise as found in the Motet Cycle Database.