Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, Bifolium: Slightly larger capitals, red crosses in text. 16th century folio-cross references in margins. Number of scribes, Bifolium: 2. Script, Bifolium: Round Textura. Layout, Bifolium: Text block 120 x 95 mm. 20 lines. Dry-point frame ruled; ink horizontal line ruled, 2 sets of vertical dry-point rulings, one kind ca 22 mm apart & the other ca. 5 mm apart.
Former Owner(s):
Acquired by Linda Ehrsam Voigts from Bernard M. Rosenthal in 1975, and given by her to the Karen Gould Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 2012.
Manuscript note: Bifolium from center of quire. Bifolium: Consuelo Dutschke has suggested that the vertical ruling could be for a calendar. Linda Voigts notes that it resembles the lineation necessary for the grids for tables, mathematical or—more likely—astronomical-astrological tables. See John Murdoch, Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Album of Science) New York, 1984, Chapter 9, “Tabulae: Calculational and Stored Information.” Almanacs... Bifolium: The feasts whose texts are included in this bifolium run from that of Saint Agatha (5 February) through Saint Peter ad vincula (1 August). Incipit, Bifolium: f. 22v V. Venite ad me. In sancti petri ad vincula. Sicut. Explicit, Bifolium: f. 21r Vidimus in civitate dei nostri in monte sancto eius alleluia.
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