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Noted Breviary

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 809

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 Noted Breviary
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 809
Page/Folio Reference Cover
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northern France (?)
Date of Origin 14th century
General Remarks

Of monastic use. 

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Sister leaves are now:

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, ALT FRG 117/02

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, FRG 200

Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 637

Original Condition

Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 9 – 10 mm
Ruling in ink

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial leaf
Dimensions 140 x 243 mm
More about the Current Condition

A single leaf detached, trimmed and repurposed as a wrapper for the host volume. Traces of the reverse of the leaf are visible behind the modern paper pastedowns. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

A single 3-line penwork initial in red with blue penflourishing. 

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Rubric in red.

  • Musical Notation

    Square notation on red four-line staves. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Brevarium
      • Content Description

        Texts and a chant for the Common of Apostles. 

      • back cover

    History

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

    Host Volume

    Title Gerardus de Zutphania, De spiritualibus ascensionibus. Add.: David de Augusta: De quattuor in quibus incipientes Deo servire debent esse cauti. (I). Thomas a Kempis: Meditationes de vita Christi (II). Bertholdus: Horologium devotionis (III).
    Date of Origin/Publication 1488-93
    Place of Origin/Publication Strasbourg
    Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 809
    Persons Johann Prüss d. Ä.
    Remarks

    ISTC No.: ig00176000

    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. 197. 

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