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Sacramentary

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Title

Sacramentary

Date

1000-1015

Description

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.
Script: Caroline minuscule; rustic capitals in headings
Condition: evidence of cropping on all sides; silver rubrics (oxidized); writing violates grid (? X 120); ruling instrument: dry point; 2 rules for each line (tops and bottoms of letters excluding ascenders and descenders), 2 mm apart

Relation

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) 810.

Identifier

Fragmenta Manuscripta 003

Source

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta003_45

Format

f. 1r-v - Not bound. Parchment - 208 x 145 mm - 21 lines (visible), one column.

Language

Latin.

Type

manuscript fragment

Coverage

England