Breviary for Sarum use

1400 - 1415

Contents: Opening leaf of the book, at the first Sunday in advent, at vespers

Provenance: John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.

Script: Gothic

Notes: Later signature in upper right margin.

Decorations: All blue initials with red flourishing.

M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75.

Fragmenta Manuscripta 165

http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/FragmentaManuscripta165_45

Parchment - 197 x 136 mm - 2 columns with 38 lines with bounding lines (horizontals extend through vertical, two horizontal lines on top and bottom extend to outer margin, as do all vertical lines), recto, verso ruled separately in ink

Latin

manuscript fragment

England