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Lectionary of the gospels : manuscript, [not after 1175]

Title
Lectionary of the gospels : manuscript, [not after 1175]

Alternative Title: Evangeliary

Alternative Title: Evangelarium Cisterciensis

Alternative Title: Lectionarium missae

Alternative Title: Bible. Gospels. Selections. Latin
Creator / Contributor
Catholic Church
Place of Origin
Italy
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 173 leaves, bound : vellum ; 31 cm.
print
Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1100-1150.
Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1150-1200.
Printed waste (Binding)
Rules (layout features)
Catchwords.
Pricking (parchment marking)
Notes
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.
MS Typ 210. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Also available in an electronic version.
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2011. Copy digitized: Houghton Library: MS Typ 210
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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