YALE UNIVERSITY
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Beinecke MS 1168
[Italy], [between 1300 and 1399]
Processional.
In Latin.
63 l.: parchment ; 185 x 140 mm.
- This material is open for research.
- Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand containing the liturgy for the processions
of Holy Week; Ascension Day; the Purification of the Virgin; for the solemn receptions
of both religious and secular visitors; and for the funeral service.
- Ex libris Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow. Purchased on the ----- Child Fund (Christie's
New York sale, 2013 April 9-10, lot 293), 2013.
- Layout: sngle columns. Music of square notation on four-line staves with five lines
of gothic bookhand.
- Script: gothic bookhand.
- Decoration: rubricated. Initials in blue or red ink with pen flourishing in red or
blue ink.
- Binding: contemporary? blind-stamped leather over wood; flower-shaped metal bosses
at center and corners of boards and to secure straps on upper cover (straps not present).
- Processional. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
University.
Subjects:
- Catholic Church
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
- Processionals (Liturgical books)
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy -- 14th century.2local
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Vershbow, Arthur