Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Catholic Church

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958101543503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/806232198
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5810154

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Language

Summary

Conjugate bifolium from a pontifical, a liturgical book of services performed only by bishops, written on vellum in southern France. 4 consecutive pages written in 12 long lines, in a transitional, Carolingian protogothic script. Decorated with a 3-line initial in blue and red infilled with a bearded human face possibly representing God the Father and 4 2-line capitals in red and blue, 2 with decorative infill. Rubrication in red. Text of prayers from a ordination mass for an abbot or abbots, with superscript letters used to indicate plural suffixes.

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Support

Provenance

• Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), cat. 10 (2012), no. 5.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Fragments
• Illuminations
• Pontificals
• Manuscripts, Latin--11th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 11th century
• Fragment
• Illumination
• Christian
• Pontifical

Licenses

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