Harvard University, MS Typ 210

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10599

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 210

Title:

Lectionary of the gospels

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

not after 1175

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 173 leaves, bound : vellum ; 31 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Brooke, Thomas, Sir, 1830-1908

Sir Thomas Brooke, 1st Baronet WIKIDATA

Brooke, W. Ingham

William Ingham Brooke WIKIDATA

Griscom, Acton, 1891-

Acton Griscom WIKIDATA

Abbazia di Morimondo

Abbey of Morimondo WIKIDATA

Note:

Includes the Exultet hymn for the Easter vigil, with musical notation on a 2-line staff, ff. 80v-85r.
Leaves are wanting at the end of the ms.
Written in two different, large minuscule hands in brown ink in one column, 18 lines per page. There are marginal notes in other hands.
Written probably in the Cistercian monastery of S. Maria di Morimondo near Milan: cf. MS Typ 223 and Light, 27-9.
Initial letters in various sizes are in blue, red, and green, and decorated. A few (e.g. on f. 9v) are zoomorphic.
Vellum strip (from an earlier binding?) laid in, cut from a printed (17th-cent.?) marriage licence.
Rebound with alum taw spine and wooden boards.
In a cloth tray case housed with boards and spine of former, 19th-century black morocco binding.
Sir Thomas Brooke (armorial bookplate in cover of former binding; his catalogue, 1891, i. 196-7); W. Ingham Brooke (inscription dated 1908); Acton Griscom (De Ricci).
Bequest of Philip Hofer, 1984.

Keyword:

Printed waste

rules (layout features)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096036440203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:27800952

Holding Institution:

Harvard University