| Description | Half of a bifolium from a missal, parchment. The two leaves are attached but have been cut in half horizontally, the top portion remains and the bottom portion of the text is missing. Text in black ink in two columns in a Gothic bookhand with red highlights and rubrics and alternating red and blue capitals. The page indicators at the top of each folio show that this was part of a gathering because the leaves, though attached, are not consecutive. The text is for Holy Wednesday (folio 1) and Maundy Thursday (folio 2).
Folio 1 recto begins with the collect for Holy Wednesday, "[Deus qui pro nobis filium] tuum crucis patibulum...", followed by a lesson from Isaiah 53:1-9. On the verso there is a continuation of the reading from Isaiah 53:12, followed by the tract. The remainder of the text on the verso is the Passion of Christ according to Luke (Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundem Lucani, Luke 22:1-11). Most of verses 1-4 are missing from the bottom of the leaf. Folio 1r/v is numbered lxxxv and lxxxvi.
Folio 2 recto begins with a reading from John 13:1-15, with verses 7-9 missing from the bottom of the leaf. The verso begins with part of the secret for Maundy Thursday, "[Ipse tibi quesumus domine... ho]dierna traditione monstravit...". This is followed in column A by rubrics and textual prompts for the preface and other elements of the Eucharist, and the Communion prayer from John 13. In column B there are prompts for various psalms and antiphons and the beginning of the postcommunion text, "Refecti vitalibus alimentis...". Folio 2r/v is numbered xc and xci.
This fragment appears to have been recycled for use as the outer covering of a later work. In the central margin between f.1v/f.2r there is an annotation: "Commentarior(?) Libri 3 P. Bertij". This is probably Petrus Bertius' Commentariorum Rerum Germanicum, Libri Tres, 1616. |