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Service books. Religious texts

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Four contiguous vellum fragments, together forming the upper outer quarter of a leaf of a mediaeval rubricated and noted service book, possibly a breviary of Italian provenance., ?13th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.19
Scope and Contents

There is no stave, the notes being written above the various syllables. The portion of text visible appears to relate to the Feast of Saint Lucy (13 December). In the margin of the recto are written, in a German hand of the 18th century, what appear to be notes of five book-titles, the significance of which is not known.

Dates: ?13th century.

Miscellaneous vellum and paper fragments from various sources., 15th century, 18th century, ?20th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.27
Scope and Contents The fragments are as follows:(i)-(vi) Six small fragments of vellum, of which five appear to come from the same source, which may be a large service-book, such as a breviary, of 15th-century French provenance, although not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Graeca’. Not enough of the text is visible for any certain identification to be made. Of these five fragments, three are largely blank, having been cut from the inner margin of the leaf or leaves: portions of large red initials are...
Dates: 15th century, 18th century, ?20th century.

Miscellany of ten vellum fragments., 13th century, 16th century or 17th century.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.84.1.34
Scope and Contents The largest fragment (which is almost broken in two) consists of the lower margin and a few words, amongst which the beginning of a section ‘Respice quis domine’ and ‘paschali’ can be read, of a bifolium from a 13th-century rubricated religious manuscript, probably a service-book. The other nine fragments (some of which are printed, at least in part) appear to be of a document, or documents, of French provenance, of the 16th or 17th century.The fragments were recovered from the...
Dates: 13th century, 16th century or 17th century.