Missal – Fragment
Parchment · 4 leaves · 1301 – 1450 CEF-5azu
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 292, Pastedowns and binding
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Roger S. Wieck, Late Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA 1983.
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Four leaves from a gothic Missal used as the binding and pastedowns for a 1444 manuscript of De naturalibus contra curiosos. In a gothic rotunda hand in two columns in red and black. The text includes 2 Thessalonians 2, Romans 15, Luke 7, Radix Jesse et qui exsurget, Luke 3, and Exsulta satis filia Sion praedica.
The fragments have been used to bind De naturalibus contra curiosos. The colophon on f. 102v gives the scribe's name Johannes De Luxia and date 17 Jan. 1444. Ff. i recto and 101v contain 2 musical compositions signed by Simon Gantius and dated 18 Dec. 1529.
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