DUL Add.MS. 1950/A/40Missale (fragment)
Held by: Durham University Library: Additional Manuscripts

Vertical strip from a Missale leaf, reused as a binding hinge support.


Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 1 piece
Size: 280 mm x 34-38 mm

Condition of manuscriptStained.
Layout

No pricking or ruling visible. Written space 245 mm high. 31 lines.

Script

Written in late Caroline minuscule

Decoration

Text capitals filled with red. No initials on this piece.


Manuscript history
Creation

Written in Germany?, early 12th century.

Provenance

Former hinge-strip, from an unidentified book. An unhelpful note states that there is more of this in some Cosin books. Portfolio I/30b (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).


Manuscript contents
Original title: Missale
Date: early 12th century
Incipit: is tue habit
Explicit: eiunium sic
Language: Latin

September Ember Saturday prophecy iii (Micah 7) - prayer v. Cf. Missale Romanum i,287-8

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