Liber Ordinarius

Sanctorale

F-tumr

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 480 I

Remarks by the Editor

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

General Information

Title Sacrementary
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 480 I
Page/Folio Reference front and back pastedowns
Material Parchment
Place of Origin German speaking area
Date of Origin mid 12th - early 13th century
Script, Hands

A Northern Gothic textualis written by a single hand. 

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Below top line.

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Marginalia.

General Remarks

From the same parent manuscript as Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 480 II.

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 16
Line Height 14 – 15 mm
Ruling in ink
More about the Condition

A chant has been added to the top and right margin of the right pastedown in the same hand as the text, thus likely contemporaneously. 

Line height: 14.28 mm/line (via photogrammetry)

Current Condition

Extent 2 leaves
Dimensions 326 x 213 mm (front pastedown); 321 x 213 mm (back pastedown)
More about the Current Condition

Two single leaves repurposed as pastedowns at the front and back of the host volume. The majority of both leaves' dorses are inaccessible, however, sections of the outer edge have become unstuck in places and the text can just been seen. 

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In very good, clean condition. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Simple one-line red and black penwork initials. 

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Rubrics in red. 

  • Musical Notation

    Staffless neumes above text.  

  • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Liber Ordinarius (?)
      • Content Description

        Includes texts and chants for St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist (21 September). 

      • front pastedown

    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 I
    Persons Johann Herbort for Johann von Köln, Nicolas Jenson et Socii
    Remarks

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

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    ISTC No.: ib00611000

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    Two leaves from another liturgical manuscript are used as pastedowns at the front and back of volume III of the Bible: Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 480 III.

    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.