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ff. 102 - Dark brown calf, 15th century, over wooden boards with evidence of 5 bosses on each cover, of fore edge straps closing from bottom to top, and of chain on lower center back cover. - Cathedral of Saint Martin, Mainz, second half of the 15th century; acquired by the Bancroft Library UC Berkeley in 1965 from book seller S. R. Shapiro, said to have been purchased from a Trappist monastery in France. Previous call number 2MS BX2017 M2.

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Title
BANC MS UCB 027
Published
Germany
Full Collection Name
Digital Scriptorium
Type
Image
Language
Latin
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
Acknowledgments: - Information for this description provided by C. W. Dutschke.
Century: 15th 12th
Contents
Part 1: ff. 1r-102v

Description: - Parchment - 171 x 135 mm - 24-31 long lines; frame-ruled in lead on 3 sides (omitting the bottom).

Country: Germany

City: Mainz

Assigned Date: s. XV2

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 2; scribe 1, ff. 1-84v; scribe 2, ff. 85-102v.

Script: Cursive minuscule.

Other Decoration: 2-line plain initials; initials within the text slashed in red; paraph marks and circles around holes in parchment in red.

Notes: Contemporary foliation in early form of arabic numerals, upper margin.




Text 1: ff. 1r-102v

Title: Breviary

Language(s): Latin

Notes: All texts by cue only. 

Status of text: Missing leaf after f. 96; missing 3 leaves after f. 102.

Image 1: f. 17r Hole in parchment circled in red to avoid confusion in reading text from following leaf.

Image 2: f. 90r Reference in last two lines to Gerhard, archbishop of Mainz (1289-1305).

Image 3: Binding Back cover.

Image 4: ff. 84v-85r Variation in number of lines per page.


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Part 2: Pastedowns.

Description: - Parchment - 171 x 135 mm - Long lines ruled in ink; written space 141 mm. in width.

Country: France (?)

Assigned Date: s. XII

Dated by scribe: No

Document: No

Number of Scribes: 1

Script: Gothic.

Music: Neumes in campo aperto of the St. Gall type.

Other Decoration: Rubrics and line fillers in orange-tinged red.

Acknowledgments: - We are grateful to Dr. John A. Emerson for identification of neume type.




Text 1: Front and back pastedowns

Title: Noted service book.

Language(s): Latin

Image 5: Front pastedown Antiphonal fragment, s. XII; neumes in campo aperto.
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