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Missal (use of Noyon) – Fragment

Parchment · 4 leaves · 1201 – 1250 CE · France

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Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 120

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Language
Latin

Reconstruction Summary

Four leaves only, containing parts of: the first Sunday in Advent (f. 1) -- Christmas (2) -- Easter (3) -- feasts of John the Baptist (24 June) and St. Eligius (patron saint of Noyon, 25 June)(4). Written in a gothic book hand in 2 columns with musical notation on a 4-line staff. All 4 leaves contain illuminations. The illuminations are comprised of 4 historiated and 7 illuminated initials. Another leaf from this manuscript is catalogued at MS Typ 120.1 [F-yg8p], with which it is housed and shelved.

Scholarly description(s)

C.U. Faye, W.H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962
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06/11/2024