Hymnar Electronic version according to TEI P5.1 Fragmentarium - Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments

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 Frauenfeld Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau X 71 Hymnar last quarter, 13th century German speaking area front pastedown Latin Benedictio cereorum Includes texts and chants for the Purification of the Virgin ('Quod chorus...') and the blessing of the wax ('Hec deus...').  Parchment 2 partial leaves215 x 67 mm (front pastedown); and 216 x 66 mm (back pastedown)

Two partial leaves repurposed as pastedowns at the front and back of the host volume that may also function as spine liners. Sections of the dorse of the fragments are visible in places, where the fragments have come unstuck. 

 in ink 7 8

An early Northern Gothic Textualis written in a single hand. 

 One- and two-line penwork initials in red.  Neumes on four-line brown staves.  Description by: Fergus Bovill, 2025 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. 31.