DUL Add.MS. 1950/A/22Sarum Breviary (fragment)
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Sarum Breviary (fragment)

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1mzs25x849x.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: One piece from the outer lower corner of a leaf.
Size: 177 mm x 122 mm
Layout

No pricking or ruling visible. 19+ lines, occupying 123 mm in height, each 75-80+ mm long.

Script

Written in textura

Decoration

Text capitals lined with red. Paraphs red. Initials to every lection, 2-line, blue with red infilling and flourishing.

Manuscript history
Creation

Written in England, 15th century.

Provenance

Former cover of Shelfmark of source: SB 2132 (Routh LXIX.H.25) - Gratarolus, The Castel of Memorie (London: By Rouland Hall ..., 1563), with “Matt Phillips Sept. 21 1776” on what was the outside of the back cover, now lower part of recto, also printed Routh collection spine-labels; presumably removed in 1926. Portfolio I/21a (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).

Manuscript contents
Modern title: Sarum Breviary (fragment)
Date: 15th century
Language: Latin

Temporal, Historia Sapientie, (recto) only rubrics legible, Sunday lection v - Monday lection iii, (verso) Tuesday (?) lections i-iv: Ecclesiasticus 6:30-37.


Digitised material for Sarum Breviary, fragment - DUL Add.MS.1950/A/22
Digitised March 2018
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t1mzs25x849x.html
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