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  • Illuminated Manuscript. Ordinary of the Mass. Gothic bookhand (textualis). Latin. Parchment, i contemporary parchment flyleaf (12th century palimpsest) + 12 fols. (palimpsest from 15th century Calendar) , 140 x 185 (155 x 135) mm, 19 long lines, ruled in red ink, musical notation on four-line stave ruled in black ink. BINDING: sixteenth century, parchment leaves ruled in red ink stiffened with paper, drawing of a star within a circle pasted above Christ’s monogram and the year 1544 on upper cover; protected within a modern parchment sheet. Production Place: Germany. 1544. CONTENTS: fols. 1r – 11r Ordinary of the Mass. ORNAMENTATION: fol. 12v shield of arms inscribed Sixtus Bregell (or Bregolt), with a double eagle in black and red ink, and the year 1544; two discoloured red pen-work initials [5 ll.] with black penwork infill and decoration outside their red frames for the consecration of bread and wine (fols. 5v, 6r); red penwork initials [1 – 4 ll.] with foliage ornament.
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