[Evangelistarium]

Description

Decoration: A large incipit initial in blue with a white pattern, and decorated with a leafy design in red, blue, green and purple, and extending as a floral border in the inner margin. In the lower margin is a decorative emblem with flowers, fruits and dolphins. The manuscript includes 147 decorated initials in total. The manuscript includes occasional musical notation. Written in littera gothica textualis rotunda italiana. Principal contents: ff. 1r-42r Temporale; ff. 42v-51r Sanctorale; ff. 51r-58v Common of saints. Given by Dr T. Edmund Harvey in 1948. See for a fuller description: N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983) p. 22.

Metadata

Identifier yjchr721
IRN 372712
Class Mark MS 124
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/yjchr721
Collection(s) Medieval Manuscripts
Category Archive Print
Parent Record Medieval Manuscripts (Special Collections)
Date [ca. 1480-1520]
Size and Medium 1 v. (i, 60, i leaves) (2 columns, 31 lines)

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