Liber Ordinarius
Sanctorale
F-tumr
The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
A Northern Gothic textualis written by a single hand.
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Below top line.
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Marginalia.
From the same parent manuscript as Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 480 II.
Original 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
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
Simple one-line red and black penwork initials.
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Rubrics in red.
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).
History
Host Volume
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.