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Missal
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, ii paper flyleaves + ii modern parchment flyleaves + i contemporary parchment flyleaf (foliated v) + 78 fols. + ii modern parchment flyleaves + i paper flyleaf, 196 x 292 (132 x 198) mm, 2 columns, 25 lines, ruled in ink, quire and leaf signatures, catchwords.
BINDING: 19th century, brown leather over pasteboard, gold cross stamped on both covers.
CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 2r Prefaces; fols. 2v – 7r Canon of the Mass; fols. 8r – 34v Select Masses from the Temporal; fols. 34v – 56r Select Masses from the Sanctoral; fols. 56r – 60v Votive Masses; fols. 61r – 71v Common of the Saints
fols. 72r – 74v Mass of the Dead; fols. 75r – 76r exorcisms of salt and water
fols. 76r – 78r Mass of St Anne; fols. 78r – 78v Mass of the Cross (addition).
DECORATION: Large framed miniature with three-sided acanthus, ivy leaf, and floral border on plain parchment ground within thin gold frames, with angels and cross inscribed in a circle, for Canon of the Mass: fol. 2v Crucifixion.
ORNAMENTATION: Pink or blue white-patterned initials [4 – 5 ll.] with foliage infill on gold grounds for major text divisions and feasts, those for the First Sunday in Advent (fol. 8r) and for the Holy Trinity (fol. 31v) accompanied by full gold, blue and pink bar borders with interlaced centres and corners, inter-columnar blue or pink bar with white ornament, and full acanthus, ivy leaf, and floral borders on plain parchment including a peacock (fol. 8r) and angels (fol. 31v); gold initials [1 – 3 ll.] on blue and pink white-patterned grounds for lesser and minor text divisions, the one for the Purification of the Virgin (fol. 24r) with one-sided bar border and partial acanthus and floral border; blue and pink white-patterned bar linefillers with gold balls.
History note: Paine, Cornleius (bookplate inside upper cover); purchased for the Museum in 1891.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1891) by Paine, Cornelius
15th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1450
CE
-
Circa
1470
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 132 mm
Width 198 mm
Page
Height 196 mm
Width 292 mm
Accession number: MS 32
Primary reference Number: 169704
Project ID: 51
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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