Noted Breviary

Common of the Apostles

F-n5rf

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 637

Remarks by the Editor

The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. 

General Information

Title Noted Breviary
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 637
Page/Folio Reference Cover
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northern France (?)
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

A Northern Gothic Textualis written in a single hand. 

Original Condition

Number of Columns 2
Number of Lines at least 33
Line Height 9 – 10 mm
Ruling in ink
More about the Condition

The two fragments were originally part of the same leaf.

Current Condition

Extent 2 halves of a single leaf
Dimensions 278 x 139 (front cover); 278 x 160 (back cover)
More about the Current Condition

A single leaf has been detached, trimmed and cut in half and repurposed as a wrapper over the front and back boards of the host volume. The turn-ins are visible in places inside the book. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Alternating red and blue penflourished initials of between three and five lines.

Rubrics in red. 

  • Musical Notation

    Square notation on four-line red staves. 

  • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Brevarium
      • Content Description

        Texts and chants for the Common of Apostles. 

      • back cover

    History

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

    Host Volume

    Title Bindo de Senis, Aurea biblia, sive Repertorium aureum bibliorum. With a foreword by Antonius Rampigollis
    Date of Origin/Publication 16 June 1475
    Place of Origin/Publication Ulm
    Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 637
    Persons Johann Zainer d. Ä.
    Remarks

    A 15th-century stamped white leather binding over wooden boards typical of the Kartause Ittingen.

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    ISTC No.: ir00012000

    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. 83.