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Antiphonary

Feast of St Martin of Tours

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 77

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 Antiphonary
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 77
Page/Folio Reference front pastedown
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 12th century
Script, Hands

A proto-Gothic script written by a single hand. 

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 22
Line Height 13 – 14 mm
Ruling not visible
More about the Condition

The side of the leaf visible is the true recto. 

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 316 x 219 mm
More about the Current Condition

Repurposed as a pastedown on wooden boards at the front of the host volume. The dorse is inaccessible. 

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Evidence of wood worm damage in places. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

One-like black penwork initials with red highlights.

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Rubrics in red. 

  • Musical Notation

    Staffless neumes above text. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Content Description

        Texts for the Feast of St Martin, Bishop of Tours (11 November).

        The leaf begins with an antiphon for Matins on the feast day, begun on the previous page, "<Sacer>-//-dos dei Martine pastor egregie ora pro nobis deum."

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        The leaf concludes with a responsary for Matins on the feast day, "O bea-/-tum virum in cuius transitu sanctorum canit nume-/-rus angelorum exsultat chorus omniumque caelestium vir-/-tutum occurrit psallentium exercitus," and the first word of the first responsary verse at Vespers on the same day, "Ecclesia". 

      • front pastedown

    History

    Persons and Institutions The host volume belonged to the Augustinian canons at Kreuzlingen Abbey, Switzerland.

    Host Volume

    Title Aurelius Augustinus, De civitate dei and De trinitate
    Date of Origin/Publication 13 February 1489
    Place of Origin/Publication Basel
    Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 77
    Persons Johann Amerbach
    Remarks

    15th-/16th-century light leather binding with the red crest of the Augustinian canons of Kreuzlingen.

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    ISTC No.: ia01243000

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    A leaf from a 13th-century manuscript of a glossed Liber Extra is used as a pastedown at the back of the host volume: Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 77, Back 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, pp. 30-31.

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