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Columbia, University of Missouri, Ellis Library, Special Collections
Fragmenta Manuscripta 001
 
 Description:  —  f. 1r-v  —  Not bound  —  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.  —  M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990) 434-75. H. Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (Tempe AZ 2001) 809.8.
 AcknowledgmentsProf. L. Voigts and Dr. K. Gould kindly supplied the information that made this description possible.
 Number of Parts: 1  —  Number of Images Available: 2
 
 
 

Part  1: f. 1r-v

 
Description:  — Parchment  — 245 x 205  — 29 lines (visible) in two columns with text cut away top and bottom; slight cropping on sides; some letters missing r & l recto; text seems intact, r & l verso;
Country: France?Cardinal point:
Region: Brittany?City:
Assigned Date: s. Xmed Searchable Date Range: 940-960
Dated by scribeNoInscribed Date:
DocumentNoNumber of Scribes: 2 ?
AlphabetLatin
ScriptCaroline minuscule
NotesPatched hole, some stains. "? later E.A.Lowe (later, lighter [sic]" (Voigts, handwritten on photocopy of Salloch's description)."For a similar script, see Thompson, p. 414, plate 159" (Salloch 7). Gneuss: in England by s. X ex.
Number of Texts:  1
 
 
 
Text 1 of 1: f. 1r-v
 
TitleLectionary for the office
ExplicitIn tribus noctibus ante pascha domini leguntur tres primae lectiones in una quaque nocte declamationes Hierimie prophetae
Language(s)Latin
NotesContains part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, chapter3 to end. Slight variants from the Vulgate text.
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