The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KG 26 (LEV a)

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS275

Shelfmark:

KG 26 (LEV a)

Title:

Text for monastic liturgical use (proto-breviary)

Monastic text

Liturgical text

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

s. XII(in); 1100-1200

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Binding: Not bound.
Other decoration, One leaf: Two 2-line red initials; Eleven 1-line red initials.
Number of scribes, One leaf: 1.
Script, One leaf: Caroline miniscule.
Layout, One leaf: Text block 180 x 97 mm. 1 column, dry-point frame and line ruled. 16 lines.

Former Owner(s):

Linda Ehrsam Voigts purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal in 1975,and given by her in 2012 to the Karen Gould Collection of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.

Karen L. Gould WIKIDATA

Bernard M. Rosenthal WIKIDATA

Linda Ehrsam Voigts WIKIDATA

Note:

One leaf: The texts presented--collects, versicles, responses or antiphons, and the Confiteor (recited at Compline--seems to be directed toward the celebration of a Marian feast. The early dating of the leaf may indicate an early breviary or proto-breviary.
One leaf: On verso, line 11 Confiteor begins. Line 13 "et tibi patri" has been added interlinear above "et vobis fratribus."
Incipit, One leaf: f. 1v et opere et omnibus peccatis.
Explicit, One leaf: f. 1r -pensas concede propricius / ut quibus ubi ministram.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/KG26LEVa_46

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/images_KG26LEVa_46/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art