Fragment

Oxford: Christ Church, Archives, lvi.c.2.2

Textual information

Subject: 
Liturgy
Title of work: 
Noted breviary
Section: 
November
Transcription: 

[outside, col. 1] ||faciem illorum nisitu adiuues … Regula de historia. Vidi dominum. incipienda … in crastino ott’ sancti mar [outside, col. 2] cantetur … Benedictus … nos domine et armis tue potencie [inside, col. 1] protege nos semper deus noster … Venite. Hac die incipiatur historia ezechiel’ et legitur usque ad aduentum domini quando de temporali agitur. lc’. I [inside, col. 2] Factum est in trecisimo anno … santuario tuo et de excelso celorum||

Palaeography

Type of script: 
Gothic
Script detail: 
Textualis rotunda
Place of production: 
England
Date of production: 
s. xv

Material information

Material: 
Parchment
Type of fragment: 
Wrapper
Element of folio: 
complete
Ruling: 
pricking visible in line with the staves at edge of outer margin

Further information

Notes: 

In the inner margin of the verso of the lower half (i.e. the inside of the inner back cover), an extra stave drawn by a reader in the margin, with notation and beneath ‘Neuma’ (s. xv ex.).

Bibliography: 

Ker, POB, no. WCh1.

Dimensions

Fragment: 

322mm (h) x 460mm (w)

Number of lines: 
45
Number of columns: 
2
Height of minims: 
3mm
Space between lines: 
8mm
Upper margin: 
50mm
Height of written space: 
327mm
Lower margin: 
85mm
Inner margin: 
45mm
Width of text 1: 
90mm
Reservation 1: 
20mm
Width of text 2: 
95mm
Outer margin: 
70mm