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Accession Number: MS_32_f_2v
Illuminated Manuscript. Missal. Gothic bookhand (textualis). Latin. 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. Northern France. 1450-1470. CONTENTS: fols. 1r â 2r Prefaces; fols. 2v â 7r Canon of the Mass; fols. 8r â 34v Select Masses from the Temporal; fols. 34v â 56r Select Masses from the Sanctoral; fols. 56r â 60v Votive Masses; fols. 61r â 71v Common of the Saints fols. 72r â 74v Mass of the Dead; fols. 75r â 76r exorcisms of salt and water fols. 76r â 78r Mass of St Anne; fols. 78r â 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 â 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 â 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.
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biblical Christ Christianity cross crucifixion Easter Fitz_MSPB historiated initial illuminated Jesus manuscript New Testament religion religious St John the Evangelist Virgin Mary

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