Accession number
MS M.942
Object title
Gothic bookmark, dial type (MS M.942).
Display Date
15th cent.
Created
15th cent.
Credit line
Gift of Bernard H. Breslauer, "in appreciation of twenty years fruitful collaboration with its outgoing Director, Mr. Frederick B. Adams, Jr.", October 23, 1969.
Description
1 leaf : vellum ; 66 x 70 mm.
Provenance
Isak Gustav Alfred Collijn(1875-1949) to World War I; Martin Breslauer; Bernard H. Breslauer.
Notes
Ms. dial type bookmark; probably of Cistercian origin and written in the 15th century.
Vellum leaf folded in half, with dial 62 mm in diameter sewn between.
Text: inscribed: pr' mensa lectionis: columpna; prima, secunda, tercia quarta; the inscriptions served to mark the place where a codex should be opened, and the number of the column where the reading was to begin.
Vellum leaf folded in half, with dial 62 mm in diameter sewn between.
Text: inscribed: pr' mensa lectionis: columpna; prima, secunda, tercia quarta; the inscriptions served to mark the place where a codex should be opened, and the number of the column where the reading was to begin.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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