| Description | Single leaf from a noted missal, parchment. Probably created in the early part of the 11th century in western Germany, it includes musical notation in a fine example of Germanic neumes. The text is for masses on the days after Pentecost, probably Ember Saturday in the Octave of Pentecost, and the Octave of Pentecost.
Main body text is a Caroline minuscule in brown in a single column. Large initials and rubrics originally red although the pigment has mostly broken down. With green highlights over smaller initials and important words.
The text on the recto has three readings, beginning with the opening line as a prompt of a lesson from the book of Daniel: "Indiebus illis Angelus domini...". This is followed by a canticle also taken from Daniel (the 'Canticle of the Three Young Men', begins "Benedictus es domine deus patrum nostrorum et Laudabilis et gloriosus..."). The second lesson is from Paul's Epistle to the Romans which is followed by a lesson from the second book of Matthew.
The verso has the beginning of the mass of the Octave of Pentecost (Dominica Octabus Pentecostes) with a lesson from the Book of Revelation (Libri Apocalipsi Johannis Apostoli).
There are at least two later manuscript annotations on the recto, one in black ink inscribed "Matheu" next to the signifier for the second book of Matthew; another, possibly 15th century, upside down beneath the main text. This seems to be a comment relating to Mantuanus. |