[Evangelistarium]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Evangelistarium]
Other titles: Gospel lectionary (Leeds University Library. MS 124)
Classmark: MS 124
Publication city: [Italy]
Date(s): [ca. 1480-1520]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (i, 60, i leaves) (2 columns, 31 lines)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/yjchr721
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/372712
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
Decoration: A large incipit initial in blue with a white pattern, and decorated with a leafy design in red, blue, green and purple, and extending as a floral border in the inner margin. In the lower margin is a decorative emblem with flowers, fruits and dolphins. The manuscript includes 147 decorated initials in total.
The manuscript includes occasional musical notation.
Written in littera gothica textualis rotunda italiana.
Principal contents: ff. 1r-42r Temporale; ff. 42v-51r Sanctorale; ff. 51r-58v Common of saints.
Given by Dr T. Edmund Harvey in 1948.
See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 22.
Features
Bindings
19th-century binding of marbled pasteboards.
Provenance
Ker notes that the manuscript was made "no doubt for the use of the Benedictine abbey of St Sixtus, Piacenza, a member of the congregation of Monte Cassino: a shield in the lower margin of f. 1, flanked by dolphins, bears a cross and upon it an S".
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