(Q28681)
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Missal
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Austria
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Michigan--Kalamazoo
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Cistercians--Liturgy--Texts--Manuscripts
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between 1150-1199
12. century
1150Gregorian
1199Gregorian
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Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 347 x 238 mm
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Ms. leaf.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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A leaf from a 12th-century Cistercian Missal once owned by Otto Ege containing the prayers said at the altar as well as all that is officially read or sung in celebrating the Mass over the course of the ecclesiastical year. Text taken from John 20:11. The text opens with Mass for the Tuesday within the Octave of Easter, celebrated on April 10. While the use of multi-colored initials was banned...
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Excised from a larger manuscript. 4-line initial in red and in the margin with bowed and rounded strokes; 1-line initials and rubrics in red; capitals touched in red; irregular text size; Cistercian puntus flexus and puntus elevatus punctuation throughout; cues in the inner margin of verso. 1 column of 24 lines lead point or very light ink ruling written in formal angular Protogothic minuscule...
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Owned by Otto Ege who broke up the book. Since the style was imitated in monasteries throughout Europe, it can be very difficult to localise; Ege himself took this manuscript to be Spanish, but the Missal is now thought to be either south German or, more probably, Austrian. The parent manuscript included on f.105v an added Mass for St Robert of Molesmes, co-founder of Cîteaux, canonised in...
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2 February 2024
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2 February 2024
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