Missal Leaf

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Notes:

Now housed in a modern, matted frame (405 x 305 mm) with leaf visible on recto and verso., 2-line decorated initials in red, blue, white, and gold with elaborate marginal extenders; smaller initials within musical text with yellow and red highlights., Thirteenth- to fourteenth- century, French missal leaf including the section of the service for Saints Peter and Paul., early gothic textualis formata, and Uncertain provenance. Probably produced in Beauvais, France in the first half of the thirteenth century. On mat: "1285 A.D. France. Beauvais Missal." Possibly loaned to the WMU library school through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974. Now permanently held by Special Collections, Waldo Library.

Date Created:

[1250 TO 1300]

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France, Missals--Texts--Early works to 1800, Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts--Early works to 1800, and Manuscripts, Latin--Germany--Specimens

Language:

lat

Rights:

Copyright 2015 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, all rights reserved. The digital version is available for educational use under 'Fair Use' guidelines. For additional permission and further information contact the WMU Libraries, Digitization Center: lib-dc@wmich.edu

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https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/detail/WMUwmu~77~77~1222221~152902