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Breviary

Sanctorale

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 810 II

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 Breviary
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 810 II
Page/Folio Reference back pastedown
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Eastern France (?)
Date of Origin second half, 13th century
Script, Hands

A Northern Gothic Textualis written by a single hand. 

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Below top line. 

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 19
Line Height 6 – 7 mm
Ruling in ink

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 142 x 92 mm
More about the Current Condition

A single leaf detached, trimmed and repurposed as a pastedown at the back of the host volume. The leaf has been partially lifted and the text on its dorse is readable. 

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Evidence of wood worm damage. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

17 one-line penwork initials in red and blue and a single 3-line blue penwork initial with penflourishing in red. A single paraph mark in red. 

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Rubric in red. 

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Brevarium (sanctorale)
    • Content Description

      Includes a text for the Ferial Office for Wednesdays, "Exutultavit cor..."
    • back pastedown

History

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

Host Volume

Title Thomas a Kempis, Meditationes de vita et beneficiis Jesu Christi, sive Gratiarum actiones
Date of Origin/Publication before 1489
Place of Origin/Publication Basel
Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 810 II
Persons Johann Amerbach and Johann Petri
Remarks

15th-/16th-century dark brown stamped leather binding over wooden boards. 

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A leaf from a Psalter is used as a pastedown at the back of the host volume: Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 810, front pastedown. 

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. 559. 
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