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Breviary [Fragment] Public Deposited

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  • Language: Latin. Incipit: //Spiritu principali confirma cor meum deus. Explicit: Tu exurgens miserebis syon//. Folio range: 78r-v
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Time Period
  • 15th century
Place of Origin
  • Germany
Description
  • A leaf from a notated fifteenth-century German breviary.
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
  • knc_059_001
Keywords
  • Liturgy
  • Fragment
  • Germany
  • Christian
  • Breviary
Title
  • Breviary [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Foliation - Pagination: Foliated "78" in a later hand. Page dimensions (in mm): 303 x 226. Written area (in mm): 239 x 169. Line height (in mm): 12. Script: Gothic. Script type: Quadrata. Layout: One column ruled in ink for ten lines of music (recto) and for one line of music, followed by nineteen lines of text (verso). Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 10 Number of lines: 19. Decoration: Two-line initials, alternating red and black. Capitals in red or heightened with red, and rubrication. Musical notation: Square notation on four black-colored staff lines with custos and red barlines.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • x-10-15 (Accession number)
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Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Knox College Seymour Library Special Collections. Galesburg, IL.
Provenance
  • Item from the donation of Edward (1861-1949) and Lucy Smith Morse Caldwell (1864-1941), acquired in 1953. The Caldwells graduated from Knox in 1886.

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