Accession number
MS M.922
Object title
Sacramentary (MS M.922).
Display Date
ca. 1140.
Created
Urgel, Spain, ca. 1140.
Binding
12th-century? cedar boards, half of lower cover replaced, quires secured to heavy leather thongs, no backstrap, modern end papers.
Credit line
Gift; Fellows; 1965.
Description
63 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 296 x 210 mm
Provenance
Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) (Wellcome MS no. 21007, penciled on upper margin of fol. 1); Dawson's of London; purchased by A.N.L. Munby of King's College, Cambridge from Dawson's in 1945; purchased from Munby and Gift of the Fellows in 1965.
Notes
Ms. sacramentary fragment, use of Urgel; written and decorated in Urgel, Spain, ca. 1140.
Decoration: 3 large and numerous small floral and zoomorphic initials, in orange, yellow, and black, some with human faces and blessing hands.
Decoration: 3 large and numerous small floral and zoomorphic initials, in orange, yellow, and black, some with human faces and blessing hands.
Script
minuscule
Language
Latin and Catalan
Resources
Century
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Classification
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