Liber Ordinarius

Temporale

F-oxcp

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 480 III

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 480 III
Page/Folio Reference front and back flyleaves
Material Parchment
Place of Origin German speaking area
Date of Origin second half, 13th century or first quarter of the 14th century
Script, Hands

A Northern Gothic Textualis written by a single hand. 

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Below top line.

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Marginalia. 

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 16
Line Height 14 – 15 mm
Ruling in ink (two lines of text, or one line of text with neumes)
More about the Condition

Ruled line height: 14.25 mm. Two lines of text can be fit into one line. From the same original manuscript as F-tumr and F-tqla, which were used as pastedowns in the other volumes, X 480 I and X 480 II, respectively.

Current Condition

Extent 2 leaves
Dimensions 314 x 214 mm (front flyleaf); 322 x 213 mm (back flyleaf)
More about the Current Condition

Two leaves formerly repurposed as pastedowns at the front and back of the host volume, and now functioning as flyleaves after being lifted from the wooden boards. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Simple one-, two-, and three-line penwork initials in red. 

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Rubrics in red. 

  • Musical Notation

    Staffless notation above text. 

  • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Breviary (temporale)
      • Content Description

        Front flyleaf: Corpus Christi, followed by the rubric for the feast of Ten thousand martyrs (June 22)

        Back flyleaf: 22nd (verso) and 23rd (recto) Sundays after Pentecost.

    History

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

    Host Volume

    Title Biblia latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillermi Britonis in omnes prologos s.Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering
    Date of Origin/Publication 31 July 1481
    Place of Origin/Publication Venice
    Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 480 III
    Persons Johann Herbort for Johann von Köln, Nicolas Jenson and associates
    Remarks

    15th-century light-brown leather covers over wooden boards. 

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    ISTC No.: ib00611000

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    Leaves from a Sacramentary are used as pastedowns in volumes I and II of the Bible: Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 480 I and Frauenfeld Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 480 II.

    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. 65.