Accession number
MS M.379
Object title
Missal (MS M.379).
Created
Foligno, Italy, late 11th or early 12th century.
Binding
Rebound in 20th-century orange three-quarter morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description
272 leaves (2 columns, 31 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 380 x 260 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943)
Notes
Ms. missal, perhaps for Benedictine use; written and illuminated in Foligno, Italy, in the late 11th or early 12th century.
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures, zoomorphic and interlaced initials throughout.
Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures, zoomorphic and interlaced initials throughout.
Contents
fols. 1r-4v: Ordo missae -- fols. 5r-8v: Canon of the Mass including Per omnia, Vere dignum, Te igitur (lacks ending) -- fols. 9r-21r: Sanctorale (lacks beginning) starting with Feast of Prisca of Rome (January 18) and ending with Feast of Annunciation (March 25) -- fols. 21r-189v: Temporale from Septuagesima Sunday to 26th Sunday after the Octave of Pentecost -- fols. 189v-248v: Sanctorale beginning with St. Isaac of Spoleto (April 11) and ending with Sts. Chrysanthus and Daria (December 3) -- fols. 248v-259: Common of the Mass -- fols. 259r-272v: Votive Masses.
Script
Romanesca minuscule
Language
Latin
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