Fragmentarium

Missal – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1484 – 1485 CE · Augsburg · 350 x 270 mm

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Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 288

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Language
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)

Hamburger, Jeffrey F. Beyond words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston collections. Chestnut Hill, MA: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016.
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06/11/2024