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Missal – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1484 – 1485 CE · Augsburg · 350 x 270 mmF-feo8
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 288
Language
Latin
Latin
Reconstruction Summary
A single leaf including the beginning of the mass for the feast of St. Ulric (Udalricus) Bishop of Augsburg (July 4).
Written in a gothic book hand in two columns in black ink with red rubrics.
The recto has a 9-line historiated initial showing St. Ulric in vestments, holding a crozier and a fish. There is an elaborate floral border decoration in shades of green, incorporating an unknown coat of arms and inhabited by birds and an archer, on a ground of incised gold.
Mounted on a larger paper leaf. The verso is not visible.
Commissioned by Johannes von Giltlingen in 1484-85 and illuminated by Conrad Wagner.
Scholarly description(s)
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Hamburger, Jeffrey F. Beyond words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston collections. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016.
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Missal
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1484 – 1485 CE · Augsburg · 350 x 270 mmF-feo8
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 288
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Missal (Fragment),
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 288
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Missal – Fragment
Parchment · 1 leaf · 1484 – 1485 CE · Augsburg · 350 x 270 mmF-feo8
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 288
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Century
- 15th century
Text Language
- Latin
Script Type
- Northern Textualis
Illuminated
- Yes
Liturgica
- Missal
Decoration
- Brush
- Other colour
- Figurative
- Gold and/or Silver
- Initial
- Margin
- Ornamental
- Red
Conrad Wagner -1496
- Role: Illuminator
- Authority Source: VIAF
- Biographical data:
Germany
- Role: Not Specified
- Authority Source: Library of Congress
Missal Mass for the feast of St. Ulric (Udalricus) Bishop of Augsburg (July 4)
F-feo8
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 288
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