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Sacramentary single leaf (MS G.27).

Accession number
MS G.27
Object title
Sacramentary single leaf (MS G.27).
Created
Switzerland, 750-799.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
1 leaf (6 lines), matted : vellum, ill. ; 273 x 169 mm
Provenance
Monastery of St. Gall (probably preserved in a binding); Prof. Anton Ruland; Joseph Sattler; Max Kammerer, Wartenberg (Bavaria); purchased in Nov. 1954 from Arthur Rau, Paris for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. Sacramentary single leaf; written and illuminated, possibly in Chur, Switzerland, second half of the 8th century; added Latin text on verso written at the Monastery of St. Gall in the 9th and 10th centuries.
Decoration: 1 large colored interlace initial, other geometric and interlace ornament.
Script
decorative Roman capitals
Language
Latin;
Century
Classification