Lectionary
John 12 and Jeremiah 11
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The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
A square proto-Gothic script written in a single hand.
Original Condition
Current Condition
A single folio has been detached, cut roughly in half, and repurposed as a pastedown that has subsequently been lifted at the back of the host volume.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
A single four-line and one one-line penwork initial in black.
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Rubric in Black.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Lectionary
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Content Description
A single partial leaf from a lectionary:
front: John 12:35-36 and Jeremiah 11:18-20
dorse: John 12:22-28
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Host Volume
15th-/16th-century blind-stamped light half-length leather binding over wooden boards. Restored in the 20th century.
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A leaf from a Breviary was repurposed as a pastedown (now lifted) at the front of the volume: Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 715/04, front pastedown.
Bibliography
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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. 374.