Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions)
Illuminations.
Pontificals.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Conjugate bifolium from a pontifical, a liturgical book of services performed only by bishops, written on vellum in southern France. 4 consecutive pages written in 12 long lines, in a transitional, Carolingian protogothic script. Decorated with a 3-line initial in blue and red infilled with a bearded human face possibly representing God the Father and 4 2-line capitals in red and blue, 2 with decorative infill. Rubrication in red. Text of prayers from a ordination mass for an abbot or abbots, with superscript letters used to indicate plural suffixes.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), cat. 10 (2012), no. 5.

OCLC:

806232199