Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
An almost complete central bifolium from a small high-quality Sarum Breviary, very damaged.
Parchment
No pricking or ruling visible. Written space 138 x 95 mm. 2 columns, 28 lines.
Written in small liturgicaltextura
Initials: to rubric at the start of each Sunday, 1-line, blue with red infilling and flourishing; to each lection and collect, 2-line, gold on bipartite ground of deep pink and blue decorated with white.
Written in France, mid 15th century.
Formerly the cover of Shelfmark of source: SB 2220 (Routh LXXI.I.17) - Annibale Romei, The courtiers academie (London: printed by Valentime Sims, 1598), with handwritten spine-title, 17th century, and printed Routh collection spine-labels. Removed from book when rebound, October 1925, according to note by Stocks.Portfolio I/19 (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).
Temporal, expositiones evangeliorum Trinity 4 lection ix - Trinity 6 vespers antiphon; Breviarium Sarum 1, mccccvi-x, here with the proper collects at the start of each Sunday.