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Missal – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1301 – 1400 CE · France

F-cgy7

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (11)
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Language
Latin
Reconstruction Summary
The text is written in a gothic book hand in black ink in 2 columns, rubrics in red, initial letters in red and blue with penwork decoration. This decoration continues into a border around 3 sides of the page.
The proper chants are noted with horseshoe-nail neumes on a red 4-line staff.
On the recto is an 8-line initial letter "A" in blue and burnished gold with red and green penwork zoomorphic and foliate decoration.
A single leaf containing the beginning of mass for the first Sunday in Advent.
Online Since
08/14/2023

Missal

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1301 – 1400 CE · France

F-cgy7

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (11)

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Missal (Fragment), Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (11) (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-cgy7)

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Online Since
08/14/2023

Missal – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1301 – 1400 CE · France

F-cgy7

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (11)

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Online Since
08/14/2023
Century
  • 15th century
Text Language
  • Latin
Script Type
  • Northern Textualis
Illuminated
  • Yes
Liturgica
  • Missal
Decoration
  • Other colour
  • Figurative
  • Gold and/or Silver
  • Initial
  • Margin
  • Ornamental
  • Pen
  • Red
Musical Notation
  • Neumes on Staves
Germany
  • Role: Not Specified
  • Authority Source: Library of Congress

Missal Mass for the first Sunday in Advent

F-cgy7

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (11)
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Missal, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (11)
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