Antiphonary
Texts for Good Friday
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The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
General Information
A Northern Gothic Textualis written in a single hand.
Original Condition
Current Condition
A bifolium has been detached and repurposed as a spine liner in the host volume. Although not visible, it is likely that the fragment has been cut in two, with each half cut into a comb fragment, pasted onto the front and back boards, to reinforce the spine.
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The parchment is stained in places and there is evidence of wood worm damage.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
One-line penwork initials in red.
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Rubrics in red.
Staffless neumes above text.
Content
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Content Item
- Text Language Latin
- Title Antiphonary
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Content Description
Texts for Good Friday.
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History
Host Volume
16th-century light brown half-leather binding over wooden boards.
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, pp. 79-81.
Other available descriptions
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Christian Meyer for Fragmentarium
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