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Lectionary for the office

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Title

Lectionary for the office

Date

940-960

Description

Explicit: In tribus noctibus ante pascha domini leguntur tres primae lectiones in una quaque nocte declamationes Hierimie prophetae
Contents: Contains part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, chapter 3 to end. Slight variants from the Vulgate text.
Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri. - M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75. H. Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts(Tempe AZ 2001) 809.8.
Script: Caroline minuscule
Condition: Patched hole, some stains. Slight cropping on sides; some letters missing r & l recto; text seems intact, r & l verso.

Relation

Voigts, Linda Ersam. “A Fragment of an Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Manuscript at the University of Missouri.” Anglo-Saxon England 17 (1988): 83–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44510839.

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 001

Format

f. 1r-v - Not bound - Parchment - 245 x 205 mm - 29 lines (visible) in two columns with text cut away top and bottom.

Language

Latin

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

France
Brittany?