Breviary – Fragment
Parchment · 1 partial leaf · 1301 – 1400 CE · Austria? · 137 x 125 mmF-t6kk
Chicago, University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Codex Ms 686, Box 2, MS 57
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Natalie Nitsch, University of Chicago, 2025
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Liturgica
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The office for the feast of St. Augustine from a breviary. 1 parchment leaf with no bottom margin. Western Europe (Austria, Eastern France, or Germany?), 14th century. Latin, textualis libraria. Fragment dimensions: 137 mm x 125 mm (h x w). Rubrication, two-line initials and headers in red. Pricking visible, ruling and lining not visible. 1 column. Written area 74 mm wide. Note in 14th/15th century hand in script with characteristics of batarde.
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Natalie Nitsch, University of Chicago