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Copied for Sion Abby in Switzerland; the see was originally located in Octodurum, now called Marigny/Martinach, and later moved to Sion (or Sitten in the German spelling of the name). On f. 247v, in the lower margin, in pencil, "Joannes Aloysius Brochman acceptus anno 1749, mansit usque ad 1757" (below feast of Agatha; perhaps that being the date of him having been accepted or having left).
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On the front pastedown, as sticker reading, "Purchased from the fund bequeathed to the Seminary by Eugene Augustus Hoffman, D.D., Dean, 1879-1902."
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Binding: Bound, s. XVI, in blind stamped leather over wooden boards, with 7 metal bosses (missing the one that would have been on the back cover, lower outer corner), and with one remaining central boss; formerly with two fore edge tabs closing to pins on the back cover.
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Other decoration, ff. 1-421v: Pen decoration in red, blue and occasionally blue, pink and green. Initials in red, black or blue.
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Script, ff. 1-421v: Gothic.
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Music, ff. 1-421v: Red 4-line staves with square black notation; occasional added text and music in the margin using Hufnagelschrift notation.
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Layout, ff. 1-421v: Parchment of less than optimal quality originally, and quite worn and repaired in later times. Quires mainly of 12 leaves, the first 6 numbered in the center of the last verso (ff. 10v, 23v, 34v, 46v, 70v); occasional catchwords cented in the lower margin of the last verso (eg. ff. 70v, 269v); early modern quire and leaf signatures with letters of the alphabet and a mixture...
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Manuscript note: The binding is quite possibly a remboitage, since the leaves were trimmed certainly at least on the fore edge to make them small enough to fit the binding; where there was already additional text in the margins that would have been guillotined in the trimming, the solution was to leave large tabs containing the marginal texts, and to fold these tabs inwards, so that the fore...
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Bibliography: Not listed in either de Ricci or in Bond and Faye.
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ff. 1-421v: Stubs after ff. 28v, 92v, 158v (but no text missing?). Marginal notation throughout in many later hands.
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ff. 1-421v: Latin.
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ff. 1-421v: ff. 1-209 Temporale from the first Sunday of Advent through the 25th Sunday after Pentecost. On ff. 176-183, office of Corpus Christi (instituted by Urban IV in 1264), here with nine lessons copied out in full: Hic incipit officium de corpore christi quod constituit celebrari urbanus quartus papa scilicet feria quinta post trinitatem ab omnibus fidelibus. Si quis vero devote...
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28 June 2023
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28 June 2023
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