Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
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MS. 62
Dominican Gradual
Contents:
Date of origin:Seventeenth century
Place of origin:Spain
Support:
Parchment codex.
Foliation:
Later foliation in the upper right corner of each recto. The first leaf is numbered 2.
Dimensions:532mm x 362mm (leaves), 414mm x 258mm (ruled space)
Collation:
12 24 32 46 52 (-2) 6-88 98 (-3, -4) 10-128 134 142 15-218
Script:Written in a Gothic book script with rotunda characteristics.
Binding:Bound in blind tooled calf over heavy boards with metal clasps and corners. There are 4 bosses in a sun design on the front and the back cover. The front pastedown contains a bifolium with texts for the Common of the Apostles from a 14th century antiphonal. The back pastedown contains a leaf from the same antiphonal with texts for the Little Office of the Virgin and a leaf from a large 14th century Gallican psalter.
Provenance:The feasts of the Crown of the Lord and St Raymond Peņafort point to a Dominican house as the origin of the manuscript.
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