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  • Language: Latin. Incipit: // October habet dies .xxxi. luna .xxix.. Explicit: Idibus. Brictii espiscopi et confessoris. martyris //. Folio range: [1]r-v
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Time Period
  • Late 14th or first quarter of the 15th century
Place of Origin
  • France
Description
  • This fragment is part of the calendar originally copied into a Dominican liturgical book. It features among the October feasts the order's anniversary (October 10). The leaf has been repaired after suffering a tear down the center.
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • sto_010_001
Keywords
  • Fragment
  • Christian
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • France
  • Liturgy
Title
  • Calendar [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (trimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Foliation - Pagination: In the top outer corner of the recto, a medieval foliation in roman numerals is visible "v". Page dimensions (in mm): 160 x 280. Written area (in mm): 120 (extant) x 195. Line height (in mm): 8.4. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column, ruled in ink with single vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines. Decoration: Red, blue, and black pen-flourished initials and capitals. Rubrics and some feasts in red. Some capitals heightened in yellow.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • A leaf or fragment of a leaf from a calendar (Institutional item title)
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Date Created
  • 14th century
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Saint Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library Special Collections. Northfield, MN.
Provenance
  • One of the ten items in the St. Olaf Paleography Teaching Collection, acquired in 2019. On the top left of the recto, a nineteenth-century hand has added "No. 140" in ink, possibly a title from the fragment's reuse in a later binding. Above that in pencil is the Arabic numeral "2".

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