Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
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MS. 63
Various Masses and Offices
Contents:
Date of origin:Late seventeenth century
Place of origin:Italy
Support:
Parchment codex.
Foliation:
Contemporary foliation in the upper right corner of each recto
Dimensions:412mm x 278mm (leaves), 352mm x 218mm (ruled space)
Collation:
1-58 66 7-154 16-172 18-254
Script:Written in a Gothic rotunda to f. 49v and in a humanist minuscule in at least one hand. The final text on 118v is written in a separate humanist hand.
Binding:Bound in blind rolled calf over heavy boards with metal clasps and corners. There are five bosses on the front and the back covers.
Provenance:The feast of the translation of Loretto and the presence of four rather than five psalms suggests an origin in an Italian Benedictine or Cistercian convent.
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